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Hypertension treatment generally begins with nonpharmacologic therapy, including moderate dietary sodium restriction, weight reduction in the obese, avoidance of excess alcohol intake, and regular aerobic exercise.
Hypertension causes comprise of primary causes and secondary causes. The causes of primary hypertension remained unclear but is believed to be closely related to your lifestyle such as obesity, high salt diet, excessive alcohol consumption and family history of hypertension. Secondary hypertension causes are for example illicit drug use, congenital heart disease (coarctation of aorta) and other uncommon medical conditions.
The ideal blood pressure is systolic blood pressure is less than 120mmHg and diastolic blood pressure less than 80mmHg. Normal systolic blood pressure range from 120-129 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure range from 80-84mmHg.
Symptoms of hypertension varies depends on the causes of hypertension and the extend of the disease condition. Symptoms of secondary casues include: muscle weakness, tachycardia, sweating, tremor, thinning of skin or flank pain. For the advance cases whereby the end-organ damage happened, you might get symptoms as such: headches, transient weakness or blindness, loss of visual acuity, chest pain, dyspnea and claudication.
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