Forms of the hypertension

1. Essential hypertension

No concrete cause of the illness can be determined at this shape. As a rule, it gets manifest only on the other side of the 30th year of life. Influence factors are among others a genetic component, constitution (body type, overweight etc.), nutrition factors (high common table salt supply, overweight), stress, and endocrine factors (with Mesdames the e.g. frequent Beginn in the climacterics by hormone rearrangement).

This shape happens frequent with other illnesses of the so-called "metabolic syndrome" ("prosperity syndrome" =). Being included:
  • Adiposis (overweight, BMI > 25)
  • Glucose malabsorption or diabetes mellitus type 2
  • Increased blood fats (cholesterol, triglyceride)
  • Increased uric acid
  • Essential hypertension
The early arteriosclerosis, that is vessel calcification, stands at the end of this illness from several factors.

2. Secondary hypertension

Several known causes are possible as triggers at this shape:

Renal hypertension:
by chronic kidney illnesses with damage done to the kidney tissue at renal tumors or renal artery stenosis.

Endocrine hypertension:
So a benign tumor of the adrenal glands, the catecholamines, produces epinephrine and norepinephrine pheochromocytoma (symptoms: Heart lawn, sweatings, headaches), hyperthyrosis (thyroid hyperfunction) cushing syndrome by increased cortisol mirrors, Conn syndrome (aldosterone distribution increased), acromegaly

Aortenisthmusstenose:
Narrow place in the area of the departure of the body artery from hugging so that a too low blood pressure would arise, is regulated contrary to which one however so that a hypertonus arises.

3. Other hypertension

Other forms of the blood pressure increases don't there be these a good chance, to the two above-mentioned shapes:
  • Temporary blood pressure increase en at illnesses of the brain (meningitis, encephalitis, polio, intracranial pressure)
  • Blood pressure increases by medicines (pill, cortison, NSAR, cyclosporine A, licorice)
  • Pregnancy induced hypertension (SIH) in 10% of all pregnancies with possibility of the development of a pre-eclampsia; usually forms back to the 22nd pregnancy week again.


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