7^th World Heart and Brain Conference

Hypertension

A common condition in which the long-term force of the blood against your artery walls is High blood pressure (hypertension) which is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart disease.

Blood pressure is set both by the number of blood your heart pumps and thus the quantity of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. The narrower your arteries, the more blood your heart pumps resulting in increasing your Blood Pressure. An important sign reading is given in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg).