- reason: it usually has no symptoms. For years, we can walk around dangerously high blood pressure, and we don’t even know about it. Meanwhile, we are quietly causing damage to our circulatory system. Our heart, which is forced to pump with high resistance, can become enlarged and weakened, leading to heart failure. Our arteries, which are under constant strain, can be damaged and scarred,
creating space for the accumulation of plaques – a state called atherosclerosis. This narrows the arteries even further, worsens pressure, and increases the risk of blockages that
