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What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure means that your heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. For an adult a blood pressure reading greater that 140 over 90 is considered as high. Normally, the pumping of the heart creates a pulsing of blood along and against the walls of the blood vessels, which are flexible enough to dilate or contract. Sometimes, however, for a variety …

…from being able to stretch and contract leaving the heart to pump harder to get blood through. And last is to reduce the intake of alcohol as it increases you blood pressure a lot. Support groups: There are many support groups around mainly you can find these groups on the Internet. And usually there are yearly conferences down in Melbourne with doctors talking about high blood pressure, just keep a look out on the net.