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Health and Safety
High blood pressure, more properly called arterial hypertension, is an abnormal state of the circulation that may be a cause as well as a result of arterial diseas^say6 a pamphlet from the American Medical Association called “Your Blood Pressure". , Four of every five cases of persistently increased blood pressure are known as primary or essential hypertension, for which no underlying cause can be identified, says the AMA publication. It often occurs in those with a family history of increased blood pressure. The other one-fifth of the cases are called secondary hypertension, which means tbat the cause is known to be some defect or disease. Hypertension requires a life time of management. The patient and his doctor, working together, plan a living pattern, supplemented by various medical procedures, that will result in the longest and most useful life that the patient can live, even though the doctor may never know the cause of his patient’s hypertension. In untreated hypertension, the course from onset to death is approximately twenty years The first two-thirds is without symptoms, and can go undiscovered unless the patient undergoes periodic health examinations, particularly in the middle years. The last onejhird of the twenty years is complicated by failure of the heart, the brain or the kid
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