High Blood Pressure; Causes and Symptoms

What is High Blood pressure?

When your heart beats, it pumps blood round your body to give it the energy and oxygen it needs. As the blood moves, it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is too high, it puts extra strain on your arteries (and your heart) and this may lead to heart attacks and strokes.

  Table of Categories  for Blood Pressure Measurement (mmHg)

Category	Systolic (top number)		Diastolic (bottom number)
Normal	Less than 120	And	Less than 80
Prehypertension	120–139	Or	80–89
High blood pressure
Stage 1	140–159	Or	90–99
Stage 2	160 or higher	Or	100 or higher

The ranges in the table apply to most adults (aged 18 and older) who don't have short-term serious illnesses.

What are the causes of high blood pressure?

1.Your Stressful Schedule
Chronic stress, like the kind you experience every day during your 9-to-5, can significantly increase your blood pressure.

2.Your Excess Baggage
Weight is one of the biggest contributors to high blood pressure. But then again, it differs from person to person. Some people can be extremely heavy and their blood pressure is normal, while others can gain just a little weight and their blood pressure goes through the roof.

3. Genes
Genetics certainly play a major role in your blood pressure, but that doesn’t mean one's fate is sealed if his old man had the condition. Even if someone have the genetic burden, he may be able to override it by leading an active lifestyle.

4.Your Lack of Exercise
Lack of activity doesn’t just contribute to your growing waistline—it greatly ups your risk for high blood pressure, too. 

Sign and Symptoms: Following are the common symptoms of high blood pressure.

1. Breathlessness
2. Headache
3. Bleeding from the nose (Also known as Epistaxis)
4. Fatigue and Sleepiness
5. Confusion
6. Tinnitus or ringing in the ears
7. Vomiting
8. Profuse sweating and
9. Blurred vision

Note :- Follow the ways of prevention and control to be safe from High Blood Pressure !