Keep and Maintain a Healthy Body Weight: Being overweight increases your risk of high blood pressure. Losing weight or maintaining a the weight that is good for your body size and age will help reduce the risk of high blood pressure.

To find out whether your weight is healthy, doctors often calculate a number called the body mass index (BMI). Doctors sometimes also use waist and hip measurements to measure a person’s excess body fat.

 

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