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1. High blood pressure dangers: Hypertension's effects on your body - Mayo Clinic

   High blood pressure can narrow and damage the arteries that supply blood to the heart. This damage is known as coronary artery disease. Too little blood flow to ...

2. High blood pressure (hypertension) - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

   Blood pressure higher than 180/120 mm Hg is considered a hypertensive emergency or crisis. Seek emergency medical help for anyone with these blood pressure ...

3. High blood pressure (hypertension) - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic

   A blood pressure reading measures the pressure in the arteries when the heart beats (top number, called systolic pressure) and between heartbeats (bottom number ...

4. Elevated blood pressure - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

   Elevated blood pressure is blood pressure that is slightly higher than what is considered ideal. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm ...

5. Stress and high blood pressure: What's the connection? - Mayo Clinic

   These hormones cause the heart to beat faster and the blood vessels to narrow. These actions increase blood pressure for a time. There's no proof that stress by ...

6. Hypertensive crisis: What are the symptoms? - Mayo Clinic

   A hypertensive crisis is a sudden, severe increase in blood pressure. The blood pressure reading is 180/120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or greater.

7. Blood pressure chart: What your reading means - Mayo Clinic

   A blood pressure measurement over 180/120 mm Hg is called a hypertensive emergency or crisis. Seek emergency medical help for anyone with these blood pressure ...

8. Anxiety: A cause of high blood pressure? - Mayo Clinic

   Answer From Donald Hensrud, M.D.. High blood pressure is called hypertension. Anxiety doesn't cause long-term high blood pressure. But bouts of anxiety can ...

9. High blood pressure in children - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

   High blood pressure in younger children is often related to other health conditions, such as heart defects, kidney disease, genetic conditions or hormonal ...

10. High blood pressure and pregnancy: Know the facts - Mayo Clinic

    After 20 weeks of pregnancy, blood pressure that's higher than 140/90 mm Hg without any other organ damage is considered to be gestational hypertension. Blood ...