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![]() What Is Considered High Blood Pressure (Numbers)? Blood returns in the veins leading to the heart, aided by gravity and muscle contraction. Blood pressure is highest as its leaves the heart through the aorta and gradually decreases as it enters smaller and smaller blood vessels (arteries, arterioles, and capillaries). Blood pressure can be defined as the pressure of blood on the walls of the arteries as it circulates through the body. How the heart pumps blood into the arteries with enough force to push blood to the far reaches of each organ from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. High blood pressure has become the second most common reason for medical office visits in the United States. Public awareness of these dangers has increased.While it ranks second to tobacco use as a preventable cause of death for any reason, high blood pressure is the number one cause of preventable heart- and stroke-related death. High blood pressure is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States.Aneurysms can be found in the brain, along the route of the aorta (the large artery that leaves the heart), and other arteries in the abdomen and extremities. Important complications of uncontrolled or poorly treated high blood pressure are due to chronic damage that occurs to different organs in the body and includes heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, peripheral artery disease, and aneurysms (weakening of the walls of an artery, leading to a sac formation or ballooning of the artery wall).Many individuals have high blood pressure but do not know it. ![]() ![]() High blood pressure ( hypertension) is known as the "silent killer" since it has no initial symptoms but can lead to long-term disease and complications.High blood pressure is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States.
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