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 HBP: High blood pressure or hypertension is a common disease in the word that known as a high pressure in the arteries which are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. Hypertension can affect all types of people spicily foe those who have a family history of the disease. This essay will show the causes and the symptom of this disease and outline the possible treatment that help patent to prevent the symptoms.

High blood pressure may caused by many factors. Although there are no direct causes, many risk factors may cause this disease. For example, obesity and wrong lifestyle may cause this ill. Some scientists believe that aging my cause hypertension whereas others believe that it is related to inherit genetics that mutations from the parents. Researches show that excess salt intake has no significant role in hypertension, although this information is common in many societies. However, sympathetic over activity is implicated in causing this disease.

There are several effects occurs on the patient before the symptoms starts. First effect caused by high blood pressure is damaging the arteries which lead to damage the cells inside. Hypertension also affects the whole body by blocking the blood which makes it hard to reach the heart. Moreover, if the required quantity of the blood did not reach the heart then it will cause a pain in the chest which leads to get a heart attack. Furthermore, hypertension affects the kidneys and it cause failure to them, because they depend on the blood and nutrition. The kidneys will not do the job perfectly in filtering the blood if the whole blood did not pass through them.

Despite of the danger of hypertension, there are many treatments founded to reduce serious problems caused by hypertension. First of all, the doctors will give the patient medications and he should stick to take the treatment. Besides, the patient should change the way he eats, in other words to change his life style by following a diet but it should be a healthy diet, also reducing the salt in the food. In addition, the exercises are important to prevent the probability of getting heart attack or any symptom of hypertension.

To conclude, the high blood pressure is a chronic disease cannot recover from it ever, but if the patient could control himself, it will be easier to deal with this disease. However, the most important thing the patient should follow the doctor advice.