Found your individual cause of Hypertension?

[Celliott55]

Can I ask if anyone has done the work to find there individual causes of Primary Hypertension (not secondary where Hypertension is cause by problems with Liver or Kidney disease etc)

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[Jumpey]

No but I would love to. A much better approach than medicating symptoms.x

[Hidden]

I am taking steroids and Leflunomide, both of which cause my blood pressure to rise.

[Hbp200 in reply to Hidden]

My wife is a former professional bodybuilder who developed hypertension from using steroids. They have also caused aortic stenosis, high venous blood pressure, extremely distention of her veins and a variety of cardiovascular problems. One day she participated in a research study on the response of blood pressure during heavy weight lifting in hypertensives females. During heavy leg extensions her pressure was 375/360.

[Hidden]

I only used steroids on prescription, to treat Vasculitis. But all steroids are dangerous.