Am I at Risk for High Blood Pressure?

Picture this, you've just had an argument with your spouse or your kids. You're feeling angry, your face is flushed, your heart is pounding hard and on top of all that, you have a headache. If you took a reading of your blood pressure right now, you will see that it is alarmingly high.

Our blood pressure increases with intense emotion, but it's a natural reaction and will quickly return to normal levels once your fear or anger subsides. High blood pressure is typically not diagnosed until it remains consistently high over an extended period of time.

The only way to detect it is to have it checked regularly, at least once every two years. The following symptoms may indicate that you are suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that's why it's so important to check your blood pressure regularly.

Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities

Most people in the traditional medical system will tell you that roughly 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, this is termed essential hypertension. I think it's scary to consider such a big percentage unknown. Because there is something you can do about this 95%. More on that later.

Risk factors can either be controllable or uncontrollable. Examples of uncontrollable risks are heredity, age, and race. The older you get, the higher your risk for developing high blood pressure.

Generally speaking, hypertension most often occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women it typically begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family has it, your risk for getting it is increased.

Some races also have a higher incidence of hypertension, such as African Americans, who have a tendency to get it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. Those risk factors are uncontrollable and there is nothing you can do to change them.

But there are many factors that you do have control over that have a direct relation with you developing high blood pressure. Too much salt intake, excessive drinking of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. Do you have many of these risk factors?

High blood pressure, left unchecked and untreated can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Fragile blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Some of the dangerous health conditions that occur as a result of untreated high blood pressure include:

Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF - Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.

The conventional way of treating hypertension is thru aggressive drug therapy, intended to push down your blood pressure, but with numerous side effects. However, more often than not, they do not even get the blood pressure down because like I said earlier, 95% of the causes of high blood pressure is unknown.

But I do so I've created a remarkable High Blood Pressure Program designed to drive down your blood pressure like what medicines do but without all the side effects.

The exercises are simple and takes very little time to learn and even less time to do. This program is a natural way to lower your blood pressure and helps you handle the stress that's so often the reason for your blood pressure problems. You can find out more about this amazing program here

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Christian Goodman is a well known natural health writer and the creator of the Natural Health Blog. His latest work is the Natural High Blood Pressure program, which has now helped thousands of people to lower blood pressure naturally.

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