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High stress levels can cause high blood pressure, it's important to maintain healthy mental health.

It causes a greater strain on the heart.

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High blood pressure is largely asymptomatic so it's important to remember to maintain the medication even if you think you're feeling well.

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Smoking, like high blood pressure, will cause your arteries to narrow. If you smoke and have high blood pressure, your arteries will narrow much more quickly, and your risk of heart or lung disease in the future is dramatically increased.

Alcohol can encourage weight gain which then also encourages the risks of hypertension.
Alcohol also lowers the systolic blood pressure at a greater rate than the diastolic.

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DASH diet (dietary approaches to stop hypertension).
Eating foods low in saturated fats, total fats and low cholesterol.
Restricted fluids (2L a day) can help reduce can prevent fluid intake and oedema.

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A cuff with the bladder length of >80% and width of >40% of mid upper arm circumference. Using standard sized cuffs on large arms can artificially overestimate blood pressure.