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Many people neglect to regularly check their blood pressure despite being aware of the risks associated with hypertension. It is…

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The objective behind treating your hypertension is to normalize or lower your increased blood pressure and protect the organs form damaging. Drugs and medication may not always help alone in managing the disease. Lifestyle changes are also necessary for controlling your high blood pressure and maintaining a good health.

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Hypertension, (also known as high blood pressure), is often a silent disease because the signs do not appear in the beginning in most cases. You might not even know that you have it. But, the increased blood pressure continues to damage your body and by the time you diagnose it, it is already late.

Hypertension is also known as ‘high blood pressure’. Normally, blood pressure increases beyond the normal limit when a person does any physical activity such as exercise, or sports, etc. This rise in pressure becomes normal after some time. If the pressure remains high for a long time, the condition is called hypertension and needs treatment.

The exact cause of hypertension is not understood completely. Scientists believe that there are various mechanisms that can be considered to cause hypertension. These include increased stress level in the blood vessel walls, increased blood volume, and harder blood vessels. The main causes among these mechanisms are not understood fully but there are various risk factors that may trigger hypertension in a person.

When the blood flows with high pressure across the blood vessels, it causes some serious complications. Since hypertension is the ‘silent killer’, it does not show any complication at an early stage. High blood pressure over time can disturb functions of several organs such as kidneys, heart, eyes, etc.

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