Why do you get high blood pressure?

It is often heard that patients with hypertension wonder why they get high blood pressure. In fact, this is also a medical problem. Generally speaking, hypertension can be divided into two categories: one is essential hypertension, which accounts for about 95% of the hypertensive population; The other is secondary hypertension, accounting for about 5%. Let's talk about secondary hypertension first, which is more common in young people. Such as primary aldosteronism. In less than a year, three cases were found in my hypertension research clinic. If adrenal ultrasound finds adenoma, it can be surgically removed. If it is hyperplasia, drug treatment is the main method. There is Takayasu arteritis, and one case has been found. Others have pheochromocytoma, which was not found in my clinic. This kind of hypertension needs targeted treatment. Another type of secondary hypertension is renal hypertension, which is more common in chronic renal diseases or renal vascular diseases. Therefore, I often need to perform renal ultrasound examination on some young hypertension and poorly controlled hypertension. Ultrasound examination of renal vessels is the reason. Let's talk about primary hypertension, that is, hypertension without other diseases, and its etiology is the most complicated. At present, it is considered that genetic factors account for about 30%, acquired eating habits account for about 30%, and lifestyle stress accounts for about 40%. You might as well analyze your own situation, except for genetic factors, everything else can be changed by yourself. Changing these factors leading to hypertension will help to control blood pressure. Risk factors that cause essential hypertension and can be changed are as follows: 1. Overweight and obesity; 2. High salt diet, low calcium and low potassium; 3. Long-term tension; 4. Lifestyle lacking sports activities; 5. Long-term excessive drinking. There are also some unchangeable risk factors, such as heredity, male, age and so on. In order to prevent and treat hypertension, the focus of non-drug treatment is to manage the above variable risk factors. Let these factors reduce the role of hypertension, which is conducive to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.