Blood pressure

2. Most of the time, when no specific cause is found this is called ____________hypertension.
5. Hypertension is most common in adults, however _______ can have high blood pressure too.
7. This number indicates how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls while the heart is resting between beats.
8. The lower number of blood pressure is called
11. Excess body weight, diabetes, dietary factors, smoking,vaping and family history all play a role in high __________________.
12. The upper number of blood pressure is called
15. This condition is also called, High blood pressure, which is the force of the blood pushing on the blood vessel walls that is too high.
16. High blood pressure causes this to pump harder.

1. Blood pressure comes down when the heart __________.
3. Blood pressure changes from minute to minute. It's affected by _________and______, body temperature, diet, emotions, posture, and medicines.
4. This number indicates how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls when the heart beats.
6. After a while, high blood pressure can damage the heart, brain, kidneys, and ______. Finding and treating high blood pressure early can help people stay healthy.
9. Blood pressure is measured in _____ numbers: systolic and diastolic
10. With high blood pressure the arteries (blood vessels that carry the blood away from the heart) are under ________ strain as they carry blood.
13. Typically this blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease for people over 50.
14. When the heart squeezes and pushes blood into the vessels, blood pressure goes ___.