Causes of Hypertension -

Many factors can affect blood pressure, including how much water and salt you have in your body, the condition of your kidneys, nervous system, or blood vessels, and the levels of different body hormones. 

High blood pressure can affect all types of people. You have a higher risk of high blood pressure if you have a family history of the disease. High blood pressure is more common in African Americans than Caucasians.

Most of the time, no cause is identified. This is called essential hypertension. High blood pressure that results from a specific condition, habit, or medication is called secondary hypertension.

Too much salt in your diet can lead to high blood pressure.

Secondary Hypertension may also be due to:

• Adrenal gland tumor
• Alcohol poisoning
• Anxiety and stress
• Appetite suppressants
• Arteriosclerosis
• Birth control pills
• Certain cold medicines
• Coarctation of the aorta
• Cocaine use
• Cushing syndrome
• Diabetes
• Kidney disease, including:
  • Glomerulonephritis(inflammation of kidneys)
  • Kidney failure
  • Renal artery stenosis
  • Renal vascular obstruction or narrowing

• Migraine medicines
• Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura
• Obesity
• Pain
• Periarteritis nodosa
• Pregnancy (called gestational hypertension)
• Radiation enteritis
• Renal artery stenosis
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis
• Wilms′ tumor.

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