Tracing the root cause is what drives each of us to seek the truth about the disease. What is the root cause of hypertension? Xin Yi classroom to give you the answer to this. 1, from the mouth to find the root cause of high salt diet is the culprit of the rise in blood pressure, in China, especially in the northern region for salt intake is obviously excessive, the World Health Organization requires a daily salt intake of no more than 6 grams, while our salt intake per meal has reached 6 grams. Long-term salt intake will lead to water and sodium storage in the body, which will cause an increase in blood pressure. In particular, we usually eat salted vegetables, preserved fish, bacon, these foods are often a significant source of high salt diet. Lowering blood pressure and controlling diet, especially by adopting a low-sodium diet, are important measures to improve the current blood pressure levels in China. With the increasing standard of living of the people, young people love high-calorie food, fried, puffed food and other junk food intake than before increased significantly, resulting in a gradual expansion of the population of obese patients, which is an important reason for the significant increase in blood pressure in the young population. Therefore, control the mouth, open the legs, reduce the body mass index is the best choice for young people to control blood pressure. 2.Find the root cause from age As age increases, the elasticity of blood vessels decreases and the probability of atherosclerosis gradually increases, which is a normal physiological phenomenon, just like the gray hair and skin wrinkles that occur with age. Reduced vascular elasticity is the most common predisposing factor for increased blood pressure found in the elderly. Especially with the increase in age, we always find that the pulse pressure difference is a gradually increasing trend, this is because the high pressure into a rising trend, low pressure into a falling trend, the gap between the two gradually increased, so the pulse pressure difference will gradually increase. The most common cause of increased pulse pressure is atherosclerosis, mostly seen in the elderly. Because of atherosclerosis, the elasticity of blood vessels decreases, and they cannot contract and diastolic normally. When the heart contracts, the lateral pressure of blood on the walls of the blood vessels is the systolic pressure, in order to avoid excessive pressure, the blood vessels will be correspondingly diastolic, but atherosclerosis makes the degree of vascular diastole decreased, so the systolic pressure will increase. Conversely, when the heart is diastolic, the lateral pressure of blood to the vessel wall is diastolic pressure, when normal blood vessels contract to avoid too low blood pressure, while the contraction ability of atherosclerotic vessels decreases, resulting in a decrease in diastolic pressure. The systolic pressure rises and the diastolic pressure falls, causing an increase in pulse pressure. 3.Find the root cause from genes For family inherited hypertension, it is caused by the next generation inheriting the hypertension gene from the previous generation. This is what people often say [people who need to take antihypertensive drugs for life]. Is it true that if parents have high blood pressure, their children will all get hereditary hypertension? The answer is obviously no. If a low-salt diet, a healthy lifestyle and control of risk factors are adopted in life, the onset of hereditary hypertension can be effectively reduced and the time to take medication delayed. In short, trace the root of hypertension, it is not terrible, more controllable, as long as you do have a heart, away from the harassment of hypertension to us.