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Hypertension (also referred to as high blood pressure) is when your blood goes through your vessels with a force greater than normal. The pressure from this force strains your heart and injures your arteries.
Most or the time there are no obvious symptoms. When left untreated, the damage that high blood pressure does to your circulatory system is a significant contributing factor to heart attack, stroke and other health threats.
The origin of high blood pressure is almost always related to substances produced by visceral fat tissue (as compared to other fat depots, including subcutaneous and lower body fat) and to the increase in the hormone insulin that occurs with obesity.
According to the American Heart Association, nearly half of adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure or hypertension.
What a sorry stat that is, eh?
