Because diagnosis is established on blood pressure analyses, this situation can go unnoticed for years, as signs do not normally come out up until the body is harmed from chronic high blood pressure.
Some common symptoms of high blood pressure are also present in other conditions hence the difficulty in diagnosis without taking the blood pressure. Symptoms may include body pains, headache, fatigue, dizziness and other end organ specific symptoms such as poor vision.
• Aneurysms: An aneurysm is an irregular swelling in the wall of an artery. Aneurysms mature and develop for years without initiating signs or symptoms until they break, grow big enough to press on immediate body areas, or block blood movement. The signs and symptoms