What increases the blood pressure?

Answer 1

SALT in your food!

Answer 2

It appears that you asked the wrong question and people answered what they thought you wanted to know. You did not ask what causes high blood pressure.You asked what increases it which would apply to any blood pressure even a pressure way below what is high.

So the way anyone can increase blood pressure regardless if it is normally low is by exercising or getting very upset. This will increase it in everyone but then it goes back to normal. The medical answer to what causes 95% of high blood pressure is unknown. They do believe it can be lowered with exercise and better diet. See this site for diet that can help lower it.

They can't say that bad diet and lack of exercise causes it (hypertension) since many have the former but not the latter.

http://phifoundation.org

Answer 3

For most, the causes of high blood pressure are not known. Researchers believe several factors together may create higher pressure in the arteries. In some cases, diseases cause blood pressure to increase. These include:

Arteriosclerosis, which makes arteries stiff and unable to widen in response to rising blood pressure
Cushing's syndrome, which involves an overactive thyroid gland or a tumor in an adrenal gland
Kidney diseases or injury
The risk of high blood pressure is greater for those who are:
A smoker
African American. An estimated 32% of African Americans (compared with 23% of Caucasians and 23% of Mexican Americans) have high blood pressure.
Older. About 75% of women and almost 66% of men aged 75 or older have high blood pressure. (Only about 25% of people between the ages of 20 and 74 have high blood pressure.)
Overweight. High blood pressure occurs twice as often in people who are obese as it does in people who are not.
Sedentary
Under stress

Answer 4

It's more or less those things that the others have mentioned but I'd like to add that if you take stimulants (whether legal or illegal such as caffein, ampthetamine, ephedrine etc.) you can expect some increase in your blood pressure. If you suffer from low blood pressure and your doctor isn't concerned then be happy about it, you will avoid many awful diseases if your blood pressure never rises.

Answer 5

There can be many causes of high blood pressure, but in about 90% of cases there is no identifiable cause (essential hypertension).

It can be caused by kidney disease, diabetes, raised cholesterol or other imbalances in blood chemistry and obesity, Blood pressure tends to increase as you get older and the vascular system loses some of its elasticity.

Eating more fresh fruit and veg, cutting down on fatty and salty foods, taking exercise, stopping smoking, cutting back on booze and relaxing can all help reduce blood pressure.

Answer 6

Smoking.
Lack of physical activity
Obesity.
An unhealthy diet.
Excess alcohol.
Hypertension
High cholesterol blood level.
High trigliceride (fat) blood level.
Diabetes.
Kidney diseases that affect kidney function.
A strong family history. This means if you have a father or brother who developed heart disease or a stroke before they were 55, or in a mother or sister before they were 65.
Being male.
An early menopause in women.
Age. The older you become, the more likely you are to develop atheroma.
Ethnic group. For example, people who live in the UK with ancestry from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka have an increased risk.

Answer 7

A large number of things can lead to increases in blood pressure ranging from excess weight to stress to far more serious conditions. If you would rather have a physiologic explanation leave an additional comment.

Answer 8

Risk factors for a raised blood pressure include:
Smoking
Obesity
High fat/high salt/low fibre diet
Family history
Stress
Ethnic origin
Increasing Age
Diabetes Mellitus
Certain drugs
Low physical activity
Excessive alcohol intake

Answer 9

You diet, smoking, stress and you don't have to be over wieght to have high blood pressure many thin people have high blood pressure. It can also run in your family.

Answer 10

Look at the British Heart Foundation

Answer 11

Stress