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• Diagnosing Hypertension
  Hypertension, or High Blood Pressure, is any blood pressure reading that is above 140/90. The first number is the systolic reading, while the second number is the diastolic reading.
  
  
• Malignant Hypertension
  There are many causes for high blood pressure. The most common causes are obesity, lack of exercise, and smoking, but there are others.
  
  
• Beating Hypertension with Diet
  Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is most often caused by the usual suspects -- overeating, underexercising, and smoking.
  
  
• Symptoms of High Blood Pressure
  That is the scary part. There actually aren't any real symptoms of high blood pressure that people notice. That's why it is called "the silent killer." High blood pressure can sneak up on you, and you might never know you have it until you have a heart attack, heart failure, or a stroke.
  
  
• The Causes of High Blood Pressure
  Medical science cannot provide us with one definitive cause of elevated blood pressure. About 95% of people who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure do not know exactly what caused their blood pressure to be high.
  
  
• Hypertension and Stress
  Nobody can actually say that stress is the cause of high blood pressure. There are those who lead very stress-filled lives and never have high blood pressure.
  
  
• Hypertension Cure
  Truthfully, there is no cure for hypertension. High blood pressure, or hypertension, can be treated. It can be controlled, but it cannot be "cured."
  
  
• Hypertension Home Remedies
  Today, many of these home remedies or natural remedies are being proven to be sound and effective…not to mention safe and without side effects.
  
  
• Understanding High Blood Pressure
  The first and most important fact to understand about high blood pressure, or hypertension, is that it can kill you. High blood pressure, left untreated and uncontrolled, can lead to a heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease, or stroke among other things.
  
  
• Hypertension Diet
  If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure or hypertension, one of the first things that your doctor is likely to do is to put you on a low-salt diet.
  
  
• Exercise and Hypertension
  Sitting isn't a problem -- unless you do too much of it. It is a proven fact that exercise can lower blood pressure.
  
  
• Pregnancy and Hypertension
  Just because a woman has high blood pressure during her pregnancy doesn't mean that the pregnancy will not proceed as normal and that there won't be a healthy baby delivered.
  
  
• Hypertension Medications
  Fortunately for those of us who have high blood pressure, or hypertension, our doctors have medications that they can prescribe to us to lower our blood pressure.
  
  
• Cholesterol and Hypertension
  There are lots of things that contribute to hypertension, or high blood pressure. Your age, your sex, and your race are all factors that can contribute to high blood pressure.
  
  
• Herbal Hypertension Treatments
  Herbal treatments as a viable alternative to synthetic drug therapy for high blood pressure are being scrutinized more closely today than ever before. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a lifelong problem that requires lifetime treatment.
  
  
• Heredity and Hypertension
  People of all races, both sexes, all ages, with varying degrees of stress and both of excessive and normal weights, can and do develop high blood pressure, and heredity is one of those factors.
  
  
• Secondary Hypertension
  For the 5-10% of those who have high blood pressure with a known cause ("secondary hypertension"), the treatment may be much the same except that the underlying cause for the hypertension is also treated.
  
  
• Anxiety and Hypertension
  Does anxiety cause high blood pressure? Nobody has ever been able to give one specific cause for blood pressure readings that are consistently too high.
  
  
• Essential Hypertension
  Hypertension, or high blood pressure, comes in two varieties. There is essential hypertension, and then there is secondary hypertension.
  
  
• Risk Factors for Hypertension
  Risk factors are based upon statistics that have been gathered over the years, and while they are helpful in determining risk, they have nothing whatsoever to do with whether a patient has or will develop high blood pressure.
  
  
• Seniors and Hypertension
  It is just another one of those joys of aging. The risk of developing high blood pressure increases as we get older. The increased risk actually begins in midlife.
  
  
• Eliminate Hypertension