High blood pressure develops over time and can be caused by many things. Some risk factors can be controlled, while others cannot. Factors that influence blood pressure levels are...
"The top number – the systolic – tells us how much pressure there is from blood pushing against the walls of your arteries when thebeats," said Dr. Niteesh Choudhry, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "The bottom number – known as diastolic – is the amount of pressure from blood pushing against the artery walls when the heart is at rest" between heartbeats.
When either number is too high for too long, "it causes all kinds of bad things," Choudhry said. That can include
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