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Hypertension
What is hypertension?
Hypertension is a condition in which the blood pressure is persistently higher than normal. It is more common in men than women, especially from middle age onwards.
The pressure of the blood as it flows through the arteries and veins varies naturally. It is lower when the body is at rest and rises [...]
Hypertension Causes and Risks
Primary (aka essential) hypertension has no known cause, however there are a number of lifestyle factors which do seem to effect the chances of developing hypertension.
Risk factors may be related to the environment, genetics and family history, smoking, diet, hormones, how much sodium (salt) you have in your diet or even the level of stress [...]
Complete Information on Essential Hypertension
Essential hypertension is referred to hypertension. There are two broad categories of primary(essential) of hypertension and secondary hypertension. Essential hypertension is a medical state in which the blood pressure is chronically high. Essential hypertension is a blood pressure which is uniformly higher than the normal when no cause for hypertension can be found. Essential hypertension [...]
Full StoryHypertension – A Silent Killer
Hypertension in its simplest sense means ?high blood pressure’. Medical science calls this condition, ?arterial hypertension’, but hidden beneath the apparent simplicity of the term is the face of a silent killer. This silent killer can invariably trigger a heart attack, stroke, arterial aneurysm, eye damage, or a complete renal failure out of the blue, [...]
Full StorySilent Killer – Understanding Why Hypertension is called the Silent Killer Disease
High blood pressure is widely known as the ?silent killer?. Statistics have it that out of the fifty million Americans afflicted with hypertension or high blood pressure, only an estimated of thirty million had proper diagnosis.
In fact, most of those who were diagnosed did not visit their doctors to find cure or treatment for high [...]
