High Blood Pressure Symptoms
Many times, there are no obvious high blood pressure symptoms at all. In fact, high blood pressure, aka hypertension or simply HBP, often goes unnoticed until it has advanced to severe degrees and begins causing damage to various bodily systems. That’s why it is often referred to as the Silent Killer. Left untreated, high blood pressure can cause a person to have significantly higher probabilities for coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke and kidney problems and/or failure.
Hypertension is defined when the resting pressure is consistently 140/90 or higher. Any reading that is consistently between 120/80 and 140/90 is classified as pre-hypertensive. Being in the pre-hypertensive or hypertension category increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, aortic aneurysms, kidney failure and other life threatening health problems.
Blood pressure is the force with which your blood is flowing through your veins and arteries. It is expressed as the ratio of your systolic (when the heart beats, or pumps blood) pressure and your diastolic (when the heart is between beats) pressure. Your body raises these numbers when under stress, to ensure that blood is flowing to all the parts of your body that need to react to the stressful situation.
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