What Is The Cause Of Hypertension

Hypertension or high blood pressure, is not a new type of disease. Almost everyone knows or but do not have any experience anout hypertension. However,  not many know the causes of high blood pressure.

Here are 7 factors that may cause you to experience an increased risk of high blood pressure.

1. Heredity

Not only the skin color, physical characteristics or properties may be inherited from our parents. If one, or both of your parents have high blood pressure, chances are you also have a high risk for the experience.

2. Age

As people age, we are all at risk of high blood pressure. Why? Because as we grow older, our blood vessels elastilty also reduced so may cause constriction of blood vessels. As a result, blood pressure increases.

3. Gender

At age 45, men are more at risk for having high blood pressure. At the age of 45 years to 64 years, men and women may have the same risk stage. However, at the age exceeds 64 years, women have a higher risk.

4. Less Active

Usually, people who live in the city are more likely to have less mobile lifestyle. Working at office, and continuous sitting, plus the lack of exercising, will tend to increase the risk of narrowing or blockage in the blood vessels. Consequently lead to increased risk of high blood pressure.

5. Ingestion

If you like to eat foods high in calories, fat, and sugar, until the time you probably already subtracting uptake to circumvent the risk of high blood pressure. It also is a common fact known to almost everyone: eating salty foods may hold a lot of fluids in the body thereby increasing the risk of hypertension.

6. Excessive Weight

BMI (Body Mass Index) may be one measure of risk. If your BMI is 25 to 30, or more, you belong to the collection of excessive weight gain, and more likely to have high blood pressure.

7. Stress

Stress can increase blood pressure. Adrenaline will increase as we stress, and it may lead to our heart pumping blodd faster that make our blood pressure increases. In addition, during your stress usually will we choose bad food choices. We will tend to take food to relieve ourself, and may be indirectly increase our blood pressure.

Experts in the field of ill-health advises that those who have high blood pressure problems should adjust their lifestyle and take preventive measures.

One of the precautions that should they make is by taking natural foods to prevent high blood pressure. 

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