Salt, stress and drinking too much alcohol aren’t the only culprits
By Sheryl Kraft | Grandparents.com
“Quick — what causes high blood pressure? The first culprits that pop into your mind are likely to be: eating too much salt, being stressed out all the time and alcohol abuse. And you would be right, but there are also less obvious causes of high blood pressure, a condition that affects about one in three, or 78 million, adults in the United States.
“‘The best data demonstrates that hypertension is almost unavoidable as we age,’ says Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology and associate director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago, Ill. ‘Once we reach age 55, we have a 90 percent chance of becoming hypertensive.’”
