High Blood Pressure
Do You Know The Causes Of High Blood Pressure?
Even the blood pressure of a normal person
will increase, when he gets to know that high blood pressure is one of
the leading causes of heart attack and stroke in USA. Hence it is not
surprising for why it is labeled as the ‘silent killer’!
But, what are the causes that the related statistics as for the
number of patients is growing so fast? Let’s try to find a probable
reason here.
First things first, there are two types of high
blood pressures-- Primary hypertension and secondary hypertension. Of
the two, the former accounts for 95% of the cases. The causes of primary
hypertension are many. When it is from a specific abnormality in one of
the organs, it is known as secondary hypertension.
Primary
hypertension has a vast membership. It has within its fold about 75
million Americans. But the diagnosis of this type of hypertension is not
always easy. The type of attack varies from individual to individual.
However, some common factors can be elucidated.
The main culprit
found till date for high blood pressure is salt. So you should
immediately cut extra iodine and salt intake as soon as you find that
you are hypertensive.
Genetic factors are also playing a foul
role for the serious types of ailments and primary hypertension. But the
exact genes that have to take the blame are yet to be identified. The
present research is on the renin-angiotension-aldosterone system. It is
the system that helps to regulate blood pressure, controls salt balances
as well as the elasticity of the arteries.
Now, let’s analyze
threadbare how some of the causes of primary hypertension play their
dubious role. The noticeable abnormality is that you have an increased
resistance in the arteries; they are not as elastic, especially the
small arteries that are at a distance from the heart.
Obese people are haunted by this problem. Those eating too much
salt, not doing any physical exercises and also the aging people are
likely to own this sort of hypertension. The sodium in the salt is
absolutely brutal on the high blood pressure patients.
Review your life styles and diet habits. You will be surprised
yourself about the deficiencies that you have been putting on with, so
far in your life. You have the high blood pressure. It's the wake up call. Your arteries have become clogged. Even the County gutters are
cleaned periodically, so that they don't get chocked. You own the
God-given divine instrument- your body! Reschedule your day’s routine
and allocate time for walking and exercises. If you don't do that, you
may anyhow have to do walking exercises to your physician's chamber!
Prevention
is always better than cure! You need to say that to at least 75 million
times to cure the BP patients!