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Am I In Danger of Getting High Blood Pressure?

By: Christian Goodman You've just had a fight with your spouse or your kids. You're angry, your face is red, you feel your heart pounding and on top of all that, now you're getting a headache. If you took your blood pressure right now, it would be alarmingly high.

Intense emotions make our blood pressure increase, but it decreases and returns to normal once those intense emotions subside. High blood pressure is normally not detected until it remains high over an extended period of time.

Having it checked regularly, at least once every two years, is the only way to know if you have it. The following symptoms may signify that you are suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure. It is important to note that you may also have high blood pressure even if you don't have these symptoms; that is why it is very important to have your blood pressure checked regularly.

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

Around 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, according to most people in the medical community. I think it's scary to think that such a big percentage is unknown. However, there is something you can do about this 95%. But more on that later.

There are risk factors you can control and those you cannot. Examples of risk factors you can't control include your heredity, your age, and your race. The older you get, the greater your risk for developing high blood pressure.

In general, men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty are more prone to hypertension, and in women it generally begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family is suffering from it, you have a higher risk of getting it.

Your race also contributes to your chances of getting hypertension. African Americans have a higher tendency of developing it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You cannot control those risk factors, and you cannot do anything to change them.

But there are risk factors that you can control and have a direct impact on whether you'll develop high blood pressure or not. Eating too much salt, drinking alcohol excessively, having a sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all play a part in the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?

Hypertension, if not monitored and treated, can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Delicate blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Due to high blood pressure, the following life-threatening conditions can occur:

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.

With simple exercises that are very easy to learn and perform, this method helps lower your blood pressure naturally and helps you eliminate the stress that's so often the reason for blood pressure problems. You can learn more about this one-of-a-kind program here

Article Source: http://www.lifeweightloss.com

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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