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Why Does Sodium Cause High Blood Pressure?
Risk Factors
In the United States, about 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure. About 25% of people with high blood pressure are unaware that they have it.
About 25% of American adults have prehypertension. People who are diagnosed with prehypertension (blood pressure ranges from 120 - 139/80 - 89 mm Hg) are at increased risk of developing high blood pressure.
Age and Gender
Age is the major risk factor of hypertension. Men over age 45 and women over age 55 are at increased risk for high blood...
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What May Cause High Blood Pressure?
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Is the Salt in Your Diet Causing Your High Blood Pressure?
Earlier this month (February 2012), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report showing that nine out of ten... Read more »
I’ve been told that I have white coat or office high blood...
Good question. This diagnosis of “office-related” high blood pressure is usually suggested when the blood pressure is elevated during... Read more »
Sodium and High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure has been related to salt intake for over two thousand years. Chinese physicians described "Hardening of the pulse"... Read more »
Americans, Blood Pressure and Salt
Most Americans eat too much salt (or sodium). In some studies nearly three times the healthy amount of 1.5 grams per day. 95% of men and... Read more »
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Salt and High Blood Pressure
In one word, potassium. Nearly 95% of the high blood pressure in the world is known as primary, essential, or idiopathic hypertension. It is called... Read more »
Salt boosts blood pressure in high-risk patients
Salt intake has more of an effect on blood pressure in people with metabolic syndrome than in others, experts say, suggesting that cutting down on... Read more »
PCBs Linked to High Blood Pressure
A study of more than 700 residents of Anniston, Alabama has found that people with higher levels of chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls... Read more »
High Blood Pressure: Diagnosis
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
CausesCauses of Primary HypertensionHypertension is referred to as essential (primary) when the doctor is unable to identify a specific cause. It is... Read more »
Combat causes chronic high blood pressure: study
A new military study has found that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who experience combat are more likely to develop hypertension over the long term... Read more »
Top 5 Myths about High Blood Pressure
Myth #1: Normal blood pressure is anything below 140/90 mmHg The most recent National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute guidelines set systolic BP of less than 120mmHg and diastolic BP of less than 80mmHg (i.e. less than 120/80) as normal. This...
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