1. Primary Causes Of High Blood Pressure

Unhealthy lifestyle factors such as inactivity, smoking, alcohol consumption, an unhealthy diet with more sodium content foods, etc leads to high blood pressure.

Blood pressure is common in older people because when we become older, our vascular system changes and arteries get stiffer. As a result blood pressure increases.

Stress can cause high blood pressure because heart rates go up when we are anxious and the ventricles in the heart contract more forcefully.

Blood pressure can sometimes happen hereditarily. If anyone of the family member is suffering from high blood pressure, there is a chance to affect blood pressure to other family members also.

Being overweight, the heart needs to work harder than usual. Such kinds of situations lead to high blood pressure.