- Dr Aman
- March 10, 2026
Hypertension Risk Factors: Why Blood Pressure Rises – and What You Can Actually Do About It
Most people with hypertension didn’t do one dramatic thing wrong. Blood pressure rises through a slow accumulation of risk –
Most people with hypertension didn’t do one dramatic thing wrong. Blood pressure rises through a slow accumulation of risk –
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Your doctor ordered a CRP test. Or maybe it showed up flagged on a routine panel and nobody explained it
Your blood test report comes back with a row of numbers – sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium – and
You’ve just gotten your cholesterol results back. There are four or five numbers on the report, one or two are
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You’ve had thyroid bloodwork done. Your TSH is elevated – say, 5.5 or 7.2 mIU/L – but your Free T4
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