Hypertension is a chronic and common disease, we often say it is a “rich disease”, “poor lifestyle disease”, that is, hypertension and poor lifestyle has a certain relationship, so, what are these risk factors? Which ones have we noticed and which ones have we not noticed? Today we will discuss together the risk factors of hypertension. Number one: a high-sodium, low-potassium diet. Eating too much salt is something we often encounter in our daily lives. Lu cuisine is characterized by a lot of soy sauce, black and oily, leading us all to have a heavy taste, so we eat a lot of salt. This is one of the reasons why we have high blood pressure. 14 groups of people in China have shown that an increase in dietary sodium intake by an average of 2 grams per day increases systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 2.0 mmHg and 1.2 mmHg respectively, while potassium intake is negatively correlated with blood pressure levels. This suggests that eating less salt is good for us. Number two: overweight and obesity. As living standards improve, more and more people are becoming obese, and body fat content is positively correlated with blood pressure levels. the risk of hypertension is 3 to 4 times higher in people with a BMI ≥ 24 kg/m than in people of normal weight. The distribution of body fat is also associated with the development of hypertension. The greater the accumulation of abdominal fat, the higher the blood pressure level. The risk of hypertension is more than four times higher in men with a waist circumference of ≥90 cm or women with a waist circumference of ≥85 cm than in those with a normal waist circumference. So friends with high body mass index should pay attention to it. The third article: drinking alcohol. China’s wine culture has a long history, drinking is also a lot of people, drinking until today is still the official, business necessary weapons, although it is beneficial to our material production, but wine on the liver, damage to the blood vessels are very serious, we should pay attention to this. In our country there are many people who drink alcohol, and some men with hypertension have a long-term habit of drinking alcohol and drinking strong alcohol, so attention should be paid to the effects of long-term excessive alcohol consumption on blood pressure and the occurrence of hypertension. Alcohol consumption will also reduce the efficacy of antihypertensive treatment, while excessive alcohol consumption can induce acute cerebral hemorrhage or myocardial infarction attack. Article 4: mental tension. In modern society the concept of time is life, we are all scrambling to develop, and this brings us a huge mental pressure, competition mode fast-paced lifestyle also makes us physically and mentally exhausted, so mental tension is inevitable, and tension will make the sympathetic excitability increased, so that blood pressure rises. Other risk factors: Other risk factors for the development of hypertension include lack of physical activity, etc. In addition to hypertension, cardiovascular disease risk factors also include smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, etc. Knowing these bad lifestyles that lead to hypertension, we can pay attention to prevent the rise of blood pressure from our life, and improve the lifestyle is also part of the treatment of the disease, which belongs to the “cure for the disease” in Chinese medicine, so we must pay attention to it.