There are various healthy tips for maintaining a healthy heart and leading a healthy life. Some of them are as follows:

1. Stop smoking. The single most important thing a person can do to live longer and to have a healthy heart is to quit smoking. You are twice likely to have a heart attack if you are a smoker than a non-smoker. But from the moment you stop smoking, the risk of heart attack starts to reduce.

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The term, blood pressure usually refers to arterial pressure, which is the pressure in the larger arteries, veins and capillaries. The systolic arterial pressure is the peak pressure in the arteries, and this takes place near the beginning of the cardiac cycle – the diastolic arterial pressure is the lowest pressure which occurs at the resting phase of the cardiac cycle. Hypertension is when the arterial pressure is abnormally high. The healthy adult should have a pressure of 120/80.

Causes of Blood Pressure

In about 10% of people, high blood pressure is caused by a disease called secondary hypertension. When the basic cause is treated, the blood pressure usually returns to normal. These secondary causes include

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