Lifestyle changes are one of the most important things that we should do. Even with people whose blood pressures are not too high. We should start treating; we should be exercising a lot, exercising often. Sedentary lifestyle is one of the main risk factors like we talked about. Obesity is one of the biggest risk factors. If we were able to lose 1 pound of weight your blood pressure will come down by at least one point. And that's been known. So somebody is overweight by 20 pounds and they lose that 20 pounds there blood pressure is going to come down by 20 points. That's a significant drop in the blood pressure. And similarly salt is one of the biggest risk factors for high blood pressure dietary wise. And salt restriction would help. Alcohol consumption is known to cause high blood pressure. So significantly reducing the alcohol content or moderating the alcohol content intake will improve the blood pressure control as well.
