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Chapter 14

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Causes of High Blood Pressure (HBP)

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And there are both primary and secondary causes of high blood pressure, and primary causes accounts for about 90% to 95% of all cases, where we really don't know the specific cause of the high blood pressure but we do know some of the risk factors including older age, being overweight, a family history of hypertension and also chronic stress in someone's life, so repeated exposure to stress. In the secondary causes of high blood pressure, this is where the high blood pressure comes secondary to another disorder that causes the high blood pressure, and this accounts for just 5% to 10% of all cases. So most cases of high blood pressure we're not entirely sure what the cause is, but we do know some of the risk factors and some of the ways for controlling blood pressure.