High Blood Pressure Cause

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Most cases of HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE the cause is unknown. What we do know is that it is associated with high pressure jobs, obesity, advancing age, high salt and fat diets, smoking, and heredity .

Blood pressure is measured as two numbers - a systolic and diastolic. Systolic blood pressure is the pressure of blood in your blood vessels at heart contraction. Diastolic blood pressure is the pressure when the heart relaxes between beats. A normal blood pressure is anything less than 140/90 (the higher number is the systolic).

In 5% of cases high blood pressure is caused by kidney disease, structural problems with blood vessels and disorders in the regulation of hormones which regulate blood pressure.

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