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High Blood Pressure – Symptoms and Causes of High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is elevated pressure of the blood in the arteries. Hypertension results from two major factors, which can be present independently or together:
• The heart pumps blood with excessive force
• The body’s smaller blood vessels (known as the arterioles) narrow, so that blood flow exerts more pressure against the vessels’ walls
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What are the Causes of High Blood Pressure?

As a first step, let’s talk about your heart.Your heart is an organ that is mostly muscle tissue. It is a pump. In very simple terms its job is to receive incoming blood from the body that is low in oxygen and pump it to the lungs.As it passes through the lungs the blood gets [...]

High Blood Pressure Medication

Controlling your blood pressure is just one of many things you can do to prevent stroke. Many people assume that strokes can’t be prevented. Controlling High Blood Pressure also requires you to make changes to your lifestyle, through proper diet and exercise. To assist you, there are various herbal remedies available that are reported to [...]

High Blood Pressure What you can do to Lower yours

What is High Blood Pressure?
What Causes it?
What are the Risks?
How can it be lowered?
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure put on the walls of the blood vessels by the blood which is pumped around by the heart.  It is normally measured via the brachial artery in the upper arm, but can [...]