KNOW YOUR HEALTH: Hypertension.

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Hypertension is another name for the well known condition, high blood pressure. Blood pressure is that force exerted by the blood against the walls of the blood vessels. In medicine, the guidelines suggest that hypertension occurs when the blood pressure is higher than normal blood pressure. The normal blood pressure is usually 130 over 80 millimeters of mercury(mmHg). The risk of hypertension include age, size and weight, alcohol and tobacco use and existing health conditions. It is most associated with older people, mostly above sixty years but this days, it is also common among younger people. This is due to increased use of salt, lack of physical activity and eating processed food that are mostly associated with too much fat and unhealthy salts among the young generation. Hypertension can be managed through medication, lifestyle adjustment and stress reduction. I wish all of you a healthy life.