arterial hypertension
Arterial hypertension (hypertension, hypertensive disease) – the most common chronic disease in adults, associated with high blood pressure. Completely cure the disease is impossible, but blood pressure can be kept under control. High blood pressure is one of three risk factors for coronary heart disease, which can be controlled (the risk in this case involves not only how high blood pressure rises, but the time during which there is high blood pressure). Timely control of pressure will help reduce the risk of kidney disease. The sooner you have identified hypertension and began to watch her in the dynamics, the lower the risk of developing complications of hypertension in the future.
The reasons
The causes of hypertension are unknown in 90% of cases. However, certain factors are known that increase the risk of hypertension:
- Age (with age, the walls of large arteries become more rigid, and because of this increased blood flow resistance of the vessels, thus increasing the pressure);
- Hereditary predisposition;
- Sex (more men suffer from hypertension);
- Smoking;
- Excessive use of alcohol, salt, obesity, lack of physical activity;
- Excessive exposure to stress;
- Kidney disease;
- Increased levels of adrenaline in the blood;
- Congenital heart disease;
- Regular use of certain drugs (eg, according to some regular use of oral contraceptives);
- Late toxemia of pregnancy (a complication of pregnancy).
Symptoms of arterial hypertension
Increased blood pressure may not be accompanied by any symptoms and be detected by chance, when measuring blood pressure. In some cases, may cause headaches, dizziness, flashing before the eyes of flies
