How to reduce high blood pressure

For most people, high blood pressure has no signs or symptoms. That is why it’s often called the “silent killer.”

AHA Recommendation: Measuring Your Blood Pressure

Measuring your blood pressure is the only way to find out if you have high blood pressure.

What is the main cause of high blood pressure

An average based on two or more readings taken on two or more occasions by a health care professional is recommended for a proper diagnosis.

How Is High Blood Pressure Diagnosed?

To diagnose high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, you need to have your blood pressure checked in a health care setting.

How taking blood pressure works:

• A reading is taken with a blood pressure cuff.

• The cuff is placed around the upper arm before being inflated.
• The inflated cuff squeezes the brachial artery and stops blood flow for a moment.
• Air in the cuff is slowly released. If a manual device is being used, the person taking blood pressure listens with a stethoscope.

  If it’s an automated device, a digital display shows the blood pressu

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