![]() ![]() If the arteries that carry blood to your heart get damaged and clogged, it can lead to a heart attack. The narrowing makes it easier for fatty material (atheroma) to clog them up. It can also cause kidney failure, heart failure, problems with your sight and vascular dementia.Īlthough your arteries are stretchy to cope with your blood pressure going up and down, if you have high blood pressure, your arteries lose their stretchiness and become stiff or narrow. If you ignore it, it can lead to heart and circulatory diseases like heart attack or stroke. It means your blood pressure is consistently too high and means that your heart has to work harder to pump blood around your body. High blood pressure is medically known as hypertension. Manage your blood pressure at home What is high blood pressure (hypertension)? ![]() Have you struggled to get your usual blood pressure check ups because of coronavirus (Covid-19)? We've worked with BHF nurses to make it easier to measure and manage your blood pressure at home by pulling all the information you'll need together in one simple place.
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