Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
About This Condition
Hypertension affects nearly half of all American adults and is the leading modifiable risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. It is called the "silent killer" because it produces no symptoms until end-organ damage is already occurring. Standard medical care defaults rapidly to antihypertensive medications — often several — without a structured investigation of why blood pressure is elevated. Root causes include insulin resistance, sleep apnea, chronic psychological stress with HPA axis dysregulation, sodium-potassium imbalance, magnesium deficiency, excess alcohol, obesity, and, in a subset, secondary causes like primary aldosteronism or renal artery stenosis.
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