This is why you have High blood pressure (hypertension)
Blood
pressure is the pressure of our blood on the walls of our arteries as our heart
pumps it around our body. It’s an essential part of how your heart and
circulation works.
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Our
blood pressure goes up and down naturally all the time, adjusting to our
heart’s requirements depending on what we are doing. High blood pressure/hypertension
is when our blood pressure is inflexibly higher than normal.
A
blood pressure reading under 120/80mmHg is considered ideal. Readings over
120/80mmHg and up to 139/89mmHg are in the normal to high normal range.
High
Blood pressure over a long time is one of the main risk factors for heart
diseases. As we get older, the probabilities of having persistently high blood
pressure increases.
It’s
very significant to get your blood pressure checked regularly and if it’s insistently
high it needs to be controlled as uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to
a stroke and heart attack and may also affect our kidneys, fluid in lungs, seizures,
brain swelling and bleeding.
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What Causes High Blood Pressure?
The
exact causes of high blood pressure are often not clear but our blood pressure
may be generally influenced by following factors:
Smoking
Lack of physical activity
Family history of high blood
pressure
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Too much salt in the diet
Too much alcohol intake (more
than 1-2 drinks a day)
Older age
Genetics
Sleep apnea
Long-term sleep deprivation
Chronic kidney disease
Making
several healthy lifestyle changes can help keep our blood pressure at a normal
level.
