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Summary: There is a familial connection concerning high blood pressure, meaning that a family with a history of high blood pressure places future members of the family at risk for high blood pressure. Discover the importance of letting a physician know about a family history of high blood pressure with help from a physician's assistant in this free video on blood pressure.
Al Hedgepeth is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his degree as a P.A. in 1980. He currently works as a gynecological P.A. for Wake County....read more
"There is research that has been done and is being done on the genetic component of high blood pressure. Eventually, we may find a gene that is responsible for that as they are finding genes daily for the cause of other disease process in the human body. At present, there is a familial connection, meaning that if your family has a strong history of other members of the family having high blood pressure then you have good chance of also having high blood pressure and having the same risk for that that your ancestors did. So, a direct genetic link not yet found, a familial link, yes. It tends to run in families. You should make sure your physician knows that your family members have high blood pressure and other medical problems when you see them because that puts them at alert to make sure that they've monitor you for development of those disease processes. The high blood pressure is monitored just through annual physical exams. If you come in and have a high blood pressure, they would check a second one before they would actually make a diagnosis."
eHow Article: Genetic Causes of High Blood Pressure
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