About Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Symptoms, Causes and Health Risks
You are considered to have hypertension, also referred to as high blood pressure, if your blood pressure is 140/90 or higher. It usually has no symptoms, and it befalled you as either primary or secondary.
Most who experience hypertension are of the primary sort, to which its cause remains a mystery. However, what is known is that genetics and some other factors lend a hand in its elevation, such as:
- obesity
- alcohol
- hormones
- tobacco use
- certain medications
- high salt consumption
Secondary hypertension means your high blood pressure is occurring in concert with another disease, for example:
- kidney disease
- Cushing’s syndrome
- primary aldosteronism
Primary aldosteronism is an adrenal gland disorder that is found in 10% of those with hypertension.
In the case of secondary hypertension, you fix the underlining disease and you fix your hypertension. Therefore, its important to determine if your hypertension is primary or secondary, and if it secondary, what is the cause.
The health risks involved with untreated hypertension is its harm to your arteries, which increases your chances of experiencing:
- stroke
- blindness
- heart attack
- heart failure
- kidney failure
Did you know that the most frequently occurring condition in the elderly is hypertension? Somewhere along the line of over half. Also, that 1 in 4 adults suffer from this silent disease. WOW!
So check your blood pressure, or have it checked, regularly. Have you blood pressure come in at a healthy level by getting that salt shaker off the table, the alcohol out of the cellar and your weight under your control.
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