 Greetings from Manipal Hospital, Jai Nagar Bangalore, I'm Dr. Balraj, Cardiologist. Hypertension is also known as silent killer. Hypertension, usually in common man world, is blood pressure or high BP. Usually we say when the blood pressure is more than 140 by 90, we consider that as high pretension or a systemic hypertension. In the whole world, almost 1.5 billion are affected with hypertension. If you see the population were aged more than 75 years, 60% of the population are hypertensive. What are the causes? From last 15 years or 1.5 decade, you see the income is going up. At the same time, there's an increase in the blood glucose level, increase in the cholesterol level and increase in the weight. Modern day lifestyle also causing so much of stress on the human body, causing one of the lifestyle disorders is hypertension. So basically, hypertension is nothing but a lifestyle disorder which is caused because of the change in the lifestyle. Rooting measurement of blood pressure can pick up any hypertension, but it is a silent killer and won't cause any symptoms until it causes any endocrine damage or the kidney or the heart, the eyes or the blood vessels. Hypertension may not cause any symptoms, but in the long run, it damages the organs, resulting in heart attacks, heart failures, chronic kidney disease, dialysis, peripheral vascular diseases, resulting in amputation or gangrene, vision loss. Basically, there are two sorts of treatment. One is non-pharmacological treatment and pharmacological treatment. Non-pharmacological treatment includes lifestyle changes basically. Lifestyle changes include reduction in weight, reduction in salt intake, reduction in alcohol and having a regular physical activity in terms of aerobic exercise. Routinely, what we advise as doctors is to risk walk for half an hour, lasting for at least five days in a week. Reduce the salt to almost six grams per day. And if you are routinely consuming alcohol, if you are a binge alcoholic, you should cut down your alcohol. Other measures include reducing the body weight. At the same time, the blood pressure, this sort of intervention or lifestyle modification helps to reduce the medication if the blood pressure is between 130 to 160, but when the blood pressure crosses more than 160, you require medication as well as the lifestyle changes. The subsequent talks will discuss about the medication part, the complication part and the management part, the other variants of hypertension, other modalities of treatment and the latest therapies which are available for the hypertension. For further management or further details, all services are available in Malthi Manipal Hospital, Jainagar, Bangalore.