High blood pressure is a dangerous condition which often has a simple solution

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High blood pressure (otherwise known as hypertension, or more correctly arterial hypertension) is a serious condition which seldom carries any symptoms and which, if left undetected and untreated, can result in stroke, arterial aneurysm, heart attack, heart failure or renal failure any one of which is a life-threatening condition.

So precisely what is hypertension and precisely what causes it?

The arteries within the body are continuously filled with blood which provides a normal ‘background’ pressure on the artery walls. As your heart pumps newly oxygenated blood around your body it forces this blood into the arteries briefly raising the pressure exerted on the artery walls during every beat of the heart. These two pressures are known as the systolic pressure (the higher pressure as the heart is pumping) and the diastolic pressure (the lesser normal or ‘background’ pressure).
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