Hypertension is associated with numerous risk factors. Please, remember that certain factors are totally under your control.

Numerous or extreme stress factors usually result in a rapidly rising blood pressure. It should be noted that in this case hypertension has temporary nature. Relaxation methods that are advisable when dealing with hypertension due to stress do not include smoking, alcohol, or food. This way you only add to problems with elevated blood pressure.

Too salted dishes make you body keep fluid, adding to the elevation of blood pressure. Make sure that your diet contains minimum of sodium.

Blood pressure rises during smoking tobacco. Though the state is temporary, its chemicals have deleterious effect at artery walls. As a result, blood vessels may narrow complicating heart function and increasing blood pressure.

Unreasonable drinking threatens your heart. After two or three drinks in a row your blood pressure starts to elevate due to special hormones that add to heart rate though temporarily. Remember that too much alcohol is ruinous for cardiovascular system.

Cases of elevated blood pressure are roughly divided into two categories.

As a rule, high blood pressure diagnoses in grown-up people are of unidentifiable nature (up to 95 percent). Such a state, called primary hypertension (essential hypertension), appears progressively during many years.

The rest of cases are caused by a certain medical condition. This state is referred to as secondary hypertension. With secondary hypertension blood pressure level is usually higher and its manifestations are subitaneous. Among several states leading to secondary hypertension healthcare professionals name congenital heart defects, tumors of the adrenal gland, kidney problems.

Don’t know how often to visit your physician to get your blood pressure checked? In case you feel yourself all right, you can schedule your biannual visits starting from 20 years old. It should be noted then that the majority of patients with hypertension feel themselves satisfactory. Even with hazardously high blood levels, there may be no complaints or problems presented. Special visits to healthcare professionals for measuring your blood pressure are unlikely though.