Your guide to high blood pressure or hypertension. As a medical doctor I provide all the information you need about this disease: the causes, signs and symptoms, tests, effects, prevention and treatment. Millions of people are suffering from hypertension and it's effects. These effects include stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, coronary artery disease and many others. Also learn how you can effectively prevent this condition by living a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle includes exercising, eating healthy food, losing weight, enough sleep and other ways. I will guide you step by step on how to live a healthy lifestyle. I also discuss how hypertension affects women before and after menopause and in pregnancy.