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Hypertension is a risk factor for heart disease and blood vessels. Unfortunately, most of the people who have high blood pressure are not aware of the disease. This is because hypertension is a disease that has no symptoms.
There are people who believe dizziness or headache as a sign of high blood pressure. However, according to specialist heart complaints usually appear after a complication of hypertension. Complaints are usually felt severe headache, prolonged fatigue, visual disturbances, palpitations, chest pain, or shortness of breath.
High blood pressure is a term to indicate the condition, in which blood flow to the arteries bertekenan too high for a healthy body. Someone called to suffer from hypertension if blood pressure above 140/90 mmHg. The occurrence of high blood pressure increases with age.
Although hypertension is generally asymptomatic, does not mean the disease is not dangerous.
Complication
High blood pressure is often referred to as a disease in disguise because it does not cause symptoms, but in the long run cause damage to organs.
The disease is often caused by high blood pressure include heart attack, stroke, kidney failure.
Hypertension is a vascular disease, and blood vessels all over the body so that complications can occur from head to toe.
Nevertheless, heart disease or stroke is not a disease caused by one factor alone. The cause is multifactorial, not just high blood pressure, but there are also other diseases such as diabetes, unhealthy lifestyle, to heredity.
Hypertensive disease could be controlled. Way too easy detection, medicine sold in drug stores and the price is cheap. But many people who are not obedient to undergo treatment for his illness bored and do not cause symptoms.
Experts recommend that every adult over the age of 18 years do blood pressure checks every two years. Meanwhile, those who have risk factors, namely the age of 40 years, have high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, and had a history of cardiovascular disease in the family, it is advisable to measure blood pressure once a year.
