How did people historically not have high blood pressure?

Question

They ate things like salted meat which had an overload of salt, how come they didn’t have problems with high blood pressure?

I’m asking this because I recently discovered the papadams I eat with indian food have an insane amount of salt, and I’m having to become much more salt-conscious.

In: Biology

Answer 1

I imagine some people did.

But medicine didn’t know it was high blood pressure, or they died of something else before it became a problem