High Blood Pressure and Your Body.

High blood pressure has a huge effect on the functioning of your body. Blood pressure is a measure of how hard the blood pushes against the walls of your arteries as it moves through your body. It’s normal for blood pressure to flactuate throughout the day, but if it continue to stay high, you might to be considered to have high blood pressure, or is hypertension.

Causes

In most cases, doctors can't point to the exact cause. But several things are known to raise blood pressure. Some of these include being very overweight, drinking too much alcohol, having a family history of high blood pressure, eating too much salt, and aging.
Your blood pressure may also rise if you are not very active, you don't eat enough potassium and calcium, or you have a condition called insulin resistance.

Symptoms

High blood pressure doesn't usually cause symptoms. Most people don't know they have it until they go to the doctor for some other reason.

Without treatment, high blood pressure can damage the heart, brain, kidneys, or eyes. Over time, this damage causes problems like coronary artery disease, stroke, and kidney failure.
Very high blood pressure can cause headaches, vision problems, nausea, and vomiting.

Most people find out they have high blood pressure during a regular doctor visit. In order to confirm that you have high blood pressure, your blood pressure must be at least 140/90 on three or more separate occasions. It is usually measured 1 to 2 weeks apart. The regular blood pressure (120/80).

Treatment

You can help lower your blood pressure by making healthy changes in your lifestyle. If those lifestyle changes don't work, you may also need to take pills. Either way, you will need to control your high blood pressure throughout your life.