What is high Blood Pressure???-Know about it...

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When you have high blood pressure, or hypertension, the force of blood against your artery wall is too strong. High blood pressure can dammage your arteries, heart, and kidneys, and lead to atherosclerosis and stroke. Hypertension is called a "silent killer" because it does not cause sypmtoms unless it is severly high and, without your knowing it, causes major organ damage if not treated. What causes high blood pressure? In most cases, a doctor may not be able to pinpoint the exact cause of your high BP. But several factors are known to increase blood pressure, including obesity, heavy alcohol use, family history of high BP, high salt intake, and aging. A sedentary lifestyle, stress, low potassium intake, low calcium intake, and resistance to insulin may also cause your blood pressure to rise. What are symptoms??? Usually you will not fill any warning signs or symptoms of high blood pressure, and you will not know you have it until a health professional takes a blood pressure reading. Hypertension develops slowly and can cause seriouse organ damage, usually without any symptoms. If you develop severe high blood pressure, you may have headaches, visual disturbances, nausea, and vomiting. Over time, if you don't receive tretment for your high blood pressure, you may experience symptoms caused byy damage to your heart, kidneys oe eyes, including coronary artery disease, stroke and kidney failure. How is it treated??? -losing excess weight -exercising -limiting alcohol -cutting back on salt -quiting smoking