Question

One of the reasons that hypertension is a health risk is that chronic high blood pressure may damage the interior of blood vessels.

Answer 1

hypertension) can quietly damage your body for years before symptoms develop. Left uncontrolled, you may wind up with a disability, a poor quality of life or even a fatal heart attack. Roughly half the people with untreated hypertension die of heart disease related to poor blood flow (ischemic heart disease) and another third die of stroke.