High blood pressure (hypertension).
High blood pressure (hypertension) has an asymptomatic course and is dangerous if untreated. Against the background of hypertension, the risk of stroke, heart attack and other pathologies increases significantly.
Doctors call high blood pressure a "silent killer" because it usually progresses in the body so that a person does not notice anything. For example, half of adults have no idea that they have hypertension. That is why it is vital to monitor blood pressure, and especially for people in the risk group, it is recommended to systematically measure the blood pressure.
It should be noted that sometimes the following symptoms appear during high blood pressure:
- Headache;
- Accelerated heartbeat;
- Bleeding from the nose.
Hypertension is a common diagnosis - 47% of US adults have high blood pressure. According to doctors, more than 600,000 people died from high blood pressure complications in 2020 alone. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults (people aged 30 to 79) have hypertension worldwide.
The exact cause of primary hypertension is unknown and is formed as a result of a combination of a number of factors (unhealthy products, high salt in the diet, inactive lifestyle, alcohol intake).
Formation of secondary hypertension is facilitated by:
- Some medications (side effects);
- Kidney disease;
- Obstructive sleep apnea;
- Connie's syndrome;
- Drug;
- Renal vascular disease;
- Tobacco.
Is High Blood Pressure hereditary?
According to scientists, genes play a certain role, and if it is fixed in the anamnesis of close biological family members, the risk of developing high blood pressure also exists in your body.
Source:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4314-hypertension-high-blood-pressure
