What is a dangerously high blood pressure?
For almost everyone the risks of high blood pressure affect you in the long term. As high blood pressure usually has no symptoms people often don’t know they have it. Because they don’t know they have it, it is never treated and, over a period of years, the blood pressure remains high and starts to damage the blood vessels. This is when the damage to the blood vessels can lead to a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or kidney disease. So, the important thing is to make sure that you know what your blood pressure is and if it is high that you receive treatment and stick to it.
A small number of people will have a blood pressure at very high levels, above 240/120mmHg for example, and this can cause problems very quickly and it needs to be treated straight away.
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