What Factors Influences High Blood Pressure?

Factors That You Can Control
Several factors on high blood pressure are totally or partly under your control. They include→
A poor diet
A poor diet often is built around high calorie foods low in essential nutrients, including the ones containing saturated fat, trans fat, and added sugar. This type of diet is detrimental to overall health. It also makes it easier to become overweight. Beyond that, for some individuals, eating too much salt (sodium) can cause the body to retain fluid, which drives up blood pressure. Getting too little potassium, a mineral that helps balance the amount of sodium in cells, adds to the risk.
Physical inactivity
Lack of physical activity increases the risk of blood vessel disease, heart disease, and stroke. It also makes it easier to put on unwanted pounds. In addition, when you are out of shape, it takes more effort for your heart to pump blood. This increases the force exerted on arteries, which can lead to high blood pressure.
Obesity
Excess weight places added strain on the heart and raises cholesterol and triglyceride levels. In addition, the more you weigh, the more blood is needed to supply oxygen and nutrients to your body. The extra blood volume puts increased pressure on artery walls.
Excessive alcohol
Prolonged drinking can lead to irregular heartbeats, heart failure and stroke. It can also contribute to high triglycerides. In addition, having more than two or three drinks at a time triggers the release of hormones that increase blood flow and heart rate. This, in turn, can raise blood pressure as well as reduce the effectiveness of high blood pressure medication.
Smoking
This is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world, and it increases the risk of having a heart attack or stroke. With each cigarette you smoke, blood pressure jumps up by as much as 10 points and stays higher for up to an hour. If you constantly have a cigarette in your hand, that could keep your blood pressure elevated for much of the day. High amounts of second-hand smoke, environmental smoke, and passive smoking can also contribute to high blood pressure; it is best to avoid cigarette smoke as much as possible!
Stress
Severe stress can lead to a temporary but dramatic spike in blood pressure. Over time, this might contribute to high blood pressure, although that has never been conclusively proved. In addition, some people cope with stress by over eating, drinking too much, or smoking.
Caffeine Consumption
Even if you’re healthy, caffeine can cause a short-lived but dramatic rise in blood pressure. The amount of caffeine in two to three cups of coffee can raise systolic pressure and your diastolic pressure. However, the transient rise in blood pressure due to caffeine has not been shown to increase your risk of hypertension. The cause of essential hypertension remains unknown.
Pre-hypertension
This is slightly elevated blood pressure that isn’t yet high enough to be considered high blood pressure. If pre-hypertension isn’t addressed by changing the lifestyle factors mentioned above, blood pressure is likely to keep rising.
Factors That Cannot Be Controlled
Learning about the factors that are beyond your control can also be beneficial. If you know you’re at high risk, you and your doctor can keep close tabs on your blood pressure and start treatment at the earliest signs of trouble. These factors inclue→
Age
High blood pressure can occur in people of all ages, including teens, children, and even babies. However, the risk rises as you get older, rises because blood vessels become less flexible with age.
Gender
Men and women are about equally likely to develop high blood pressure at some point in their lives. However, the comparative risk varies by age. For those under age 45 men are more likely to have high blood pressure than women. The proportion evens out in middle age. By age 60 and older, women are just as likely as men to have the condition.
Ethnicity
High blood pressure affects people from all ethnic groups but African Americans develop high blood pressure more often and at an earlier age, on average, than their white or Mexican American counterparts. In addition, compared to white Americans, African Americans are more likely to die prematurely from high-blood-pressure-related diseases, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure.
Family history
Like height and eye color, a tendency toward high blood pressure can run in families. If your parents or siblings have high blood pressure, you’re more likely to develop it, too.
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