Postulating the major environmental condition resulting in the expression of essential hypertension and its associated cardiovascular diseases: Dietary imprudence in daily selection of foods in respect of their potassium and sodium content resulting in ox

Accordingly, we suggest that the average American is usually afflicted with oxidative stress-induced vascular endothelial dysfunction, and therefore the standards for normal blood pressure and pre-hypertension often reflect a degree of clinically significant hypertension. In this article, we provide support for those contentions, and indicate the findings that the hypothesis predicts.