pressure or hypertension, high blood pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels carrying blood from the heart pumping all tissues and organs of the body. High blood pressure directly increases the risk of coronary heart disease (which leads to the heart attack) and spill brain, especially when presented with other risk factors. High blood pressure may occur in children or adults, but is more common among older 35 years. It is particularly common in Americans, middle-aged and elderly, obese people, the large drinkers and women taking birth control pills. You can run in families, but many people with a strong history family of high blood pressure do not have. Arterial hypertension is a reading of blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg or higher. Nearly 1 in 3 adult Americans has high blood pressure. Once high blood pressure develops, usually lasts throughout life. Pressure blood signup is called the silent killer because usually no symptoms. That affects approximately one in four adults in the United States, hypertension is clearly a major problem of public health.

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le describes preventive measures that can be taken to reduce their likelihood of having high blood pressure. In addition, treatments are discussed can be applied if it has already been diagnosed with this disease.

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