What is hypertension?

High Blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the most common and dangerous health issue may put your valuable life in danger. As you are getting older hypertension may leads to damage your blood vessels may cause serious diseases like heart stroke, heart disease, kidney failure and many more. High Blood pressure also be known as silent killer because symptoms of blood pressure are invisible so its best advice is to check your blood pressure regular before it causing damage to your valuable life.

To understand the term hypertension we first need to know what is blood pressure? The pressure that the blood exerts on the walls of the vessels is called Blood Pressure. Blood pressure is the combined effect of the elasticity of walls of the vessels and the power of the pumping of the heart. Normal range of blood pressure is 120 over 80 (mmHg).

Hypertension is a condition in which the heart pressure both systolic and diastolic i.e. contracting and resting blood pressure is raised. It can be divided into 3 categories depending upon the pressure. The normal b.p is 120/80 mm Hg for a normal individual.