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What causes high blood pressure?
If your doctor has told you that you have essential hypertension or primary high blood pressure, they do not know what lead to the onset of the condition.
Up to 95 percent of patients will wind up with this condition.
It is unlikely your doctor will be able to tell you what the cause of the high blood pressure is.
On the other hand, those diagnosed with secondary high blood pressure do have a named cause. That cause may be any of the following.
- Medication Causes: Those who take certain medications including cold remedies and birth control pills, or those who take some forms of prescription medications, may develop hypertension.
- Internal Causes: Kidney abnormalities, congenital heart defects and tumors on the adrenal glands have links to the onset of high blood pressure.
- Illegal Drugs: Cocaine or amphetamine use can lead to high blood pressure.
Risk Factors
Men and women have a higher chance of developing high blood pressure during middle age. For women, menopause seems to be a trigger. For men, the mid 40's seems to be the highest risk time frame.In addition, your body mass index, or BMI can be a risk factor for the development of high blood pressure. Those who are overweight or obese may be more likely to develop high blood pressure.
How Can You Find Out?
Doctors do not fully understand the reasons for high blood pressure.You can determine if you have it by having your blood pressure regularly monitored. You can do this at home with a LifeSource UA-767T Automatic Talking Digital Blood Pressure Monitor Upper Arm 1ea. if you like.
If your resting blood pressure is above 140/89, chances are good you have high blood pressure.
Monitor your blood pressure over a period, especially if you are currently dealing with a stressful time in your life. A pattern of high blood pressure numbers over 120/80 may be a sign of the development of hypertension.
And report these instances to your doctor so he or she can determine the cause, if possible.
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