High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of High Blood Pressure?

High blood pressure is called the silent killer because you can have it for years without knowing it. The only way to find out if you have high blood pressure is to have your blood pressure measured. Using a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope or electronic sensor, your doctor or nurse can take your blood pressure and tell you if it is high.

Detecting and treating the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, an group of risk factors such as obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension, and other symptoms would reduce heart attacks and related heart diseases immensely.

Blood pressure under 140/90 mm Hg used to be considered OK. Now there are new classifications, such as “prehypertension” – blood pressures between 120-139 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) - which can be used to alert people who are definitely at higher risk for becoming hypertensive.