Many of us until now still questions why this kind of disease still plagues mankind despite of the advances in technology.
Well, the answer lies only in us.
We are the captain of our own ship, in other words we are responsible for our self for whatever instances that may happen to it.
Only us can control and foresee what our life is going to be that's why our decisions and directions made in life is crucial in determining the future of our health that would include our actions towards understanding high blood pressure and its behavior.
  Everyday there were so many factors that contribute to the demise or success of our own body.
We are the ones determining the food that we eat and can decide on whatever things that we ought to do.
All the things that we do and foods that we introduce into our own body will have an exact action in our body as a whole.
Whatever those outcomes are, our body will either enjoy or reject the result.
    Characteristic Anatomy of the Killer     Before anything else, we have to know first that HBP has two types.
The first one is the primary or the essential HBP and the second is secondary HBP.
Wherein, the former is so mysterious that nobody can pinpoint until now its most probable causes that even our highest technological advancement has been deemed useless, and the latter, is a type of HBP that is essentially caused by a primary source like kidney trouble and side effects of current medications.
  It was clear to us now that high blood pressure (primary) has no known origin but, it is not quite like that.
There were some proven risk factors that can be tracked down as the culprit behind acquiring this kind of disease.
   Some of these risk factors include: 

• Old age.
  Our body became prone to illness attacks as we become older because we tend to lose our vigor in time and many of the essential nutrients and vitamins in our body has already been used up during our prime.
  
• Running a risk of inheriting this disease is greater if your family has histories of this illness.
  Hereditary diseases can be carried down to the sixth generation.
  In other words, if both your father and mother don't have this disease, chances are, your grandparents on either side has it if you contracted the disease from out of nowhere.
  
• Race.
  Don't blame your parents or ancestors if you were born out of an Afro-Caribbean descent and or have a South Asian ancestry.
  These races were found to have a strong tendency to develop the disease in time.
  
• Other diet-related and lifestyle factors include stress, smoking and diet containing high saturated fats, above normal consumption of sodium or salt, obesity and an exercise-deficient body.
  

These were only some of the most distinct risk factors that contribute to the development of high blood pressure.
Possibility of causes are not only limited to these kinds of factors but there might be so much more that lies await to be discovered.