Thursday, November 22, 2007

High blood pressure

The first thing to note is that changes in blood pressure constantlyoccur as a response to changes in our environment and/or in ouractivity. This is a normal compensating response of the body, to keepthings functioning properly. The problems start when a continuallyhigh blood pressure is maintained, since this will eventually resultin damage to the blood vessels and heart.A number of different mechanisms can be responsible for raising bloodpressure and these will be affected to various degrees by thedifferent causative agents.

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