Hypertension is a kind of lifestyle disease and it is often referred to as a silent killer because it approaches surreptitiously, nestles down in the body and attracts or makes the body vulnerable to diseases like strokes, cardiac arrests, heart diseases, heart failure etc which can reduce the life span dramatically if not checked.


Relentless worry, anxiety, tension, the fast pace of modern urban industrial life and the difficult conditions and troubled times through which people have to live and be a part of the rat race, induce hypertension.



All these factors pump up the adrenaline that flows in the blood stream and this leads to the elevation of the blood pressure or hypertension.
If the blood pressure is constantly perched at 140/90 mm hg or consistently stays even higher, you will know you have hypertension for this is the first and the most evident symptom.


Your heart has to work harder to deal with the pressure of blood which is too strong and is flowing through the arteries. The arteries also grow tighter and the arterial system in the whole body runs the risk of getting damaged and this will in turn cause damage to the eyes, kidneys and heart.


You have to watch out for symptoms even more carefully if you already suffer from kidney diseases or diabetes. And you have to take concrete steps to lower the pressure of the blood to a manageable and later on to a healthy level.


The 12 symptoms of hypertension are papilloedema, confusion, dizziness, tinnitus, morning headache, and headache, non specific symptoms where the symptoms are usually vague and mild. In some cases, there are no symptoms at all at first, at least no visible symptoms that common people can identify and which are usually discovered accidentally by the doctor when an individual goes for regular health check up or for curing/diagnosing some other disease/health condition.


A very obvious symptom is however bleeding from the nose and fainting, but then they can be confused with the symptoms of various other diseases. Women who have undergone hysterectomy in the past often run the risk of contracting hypertension a few years later.


Many of the symptoms are a direct result of the complications of hypertension and are similar to the symptoms of heart failure and heart disease.

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