High Blood Pressure overview for everyone to understand and know.

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First of all what is High Blood Pressure ( Hypertension ) ???

It is a medical condition in which the blood pressure is chronically elevated.   Blood pressure is the force your blood exerts on your arteries as it flows through your body. If you have high blood pressure it means that your blood is exerting too much force on your arteries and is making your heart’s job–pumping blood–more difficult than it should be.High blood pressure is also called hypertension.

What makes high blood pressure important is that initially it may cause no symptoms but can still cause serious long-term complications.

• Many people have high blood pressure and don’t even know it.
• The key complications of high blood pressure include heart disease, heart attack,congestive heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, peripheral artery disease, and aortic aneurysms (outpouchings of the aorta).
• Public awareness of these dangers has increased. high blood pressurehas become the second most common reason for medical office visits in the United States.

Blood pressure is measured with a blood pressure cuff and recorded as two numbers, such as 120/80 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury).

• The top, larger number is called the systolic pressure. This is the pressure generated when the heart contracts (pumps). It reflects the pressure of the blood against arterial walls.
• The bottom, smaller number is called the diastolic pressure. This reflects the pressure in the arteries while the heart is filling and resting between heartbeats.

Scientists have determined a normal range for both systolic and diastolic blood pressure after examining the blood pressure of many people.

• Those whose blood pressure is consistently higher than this norm are said to have high blood pressure or hypertension.
• high blood pressure in adults is defined as a consistently elevated blood pressure of 140 mm Hg systolic and 90 mm Hg diastolic or higher.

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