Avoiding smoking, obesity, and inactivity helps, but then it is listed separately. Choice of diet can help, for sure—lowering sodium intake will generally lower blood pressure, for the typical western diet; I believe that vegetarianism can help as well. There are also blood pressure medications—I am not sure whether “otherwise as described but with pre-medication high blood pressure that is being successfully treated with medication” puts you in the demographic or not.
How much can you choose to not have high blood pressure? How much is genetic? How much depends on our actions but not in a way we understand yet?
Avoiding smoking, obesity, and inactivity helps, but then it is listed separately. Choice of diet can help, for sure—lowering sodium intake will generally lower blood pressure, for the typical western diet; I believe that vegetarianism can help as well. There are also blood pressure medications—I am not sure whether “otherwise as described but with pre-medication high blood pressure that is being successfully treated with medication” puts you in the demographic or not.