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Is Your Blood Pressure Low Enough?
Do you, or does someone you know, have high blood pressure? Millions of people do. So if you don’t have it, I bet that someone close to you does. If you do have hypertension, is it being treated? And, is it being treated aggressively enough? It may need to be lower.
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Understanding Hypertension
Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure The single most important risk factor for stroke is hypertension, or high blood pressure. Your blood pressure consists of two numbers. The higher/first/top number is the systolic pressure. Your heart beats or contracts. The heart muscle squeezes together. This pumps blood out of the heart and into the arteries….
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Have High Blood Pressure? Take Your Meds!
Photo Source I decided in elementary school that I wanted to be a doctor. My father is a (now retired) high school principal and value of education was something I grew up with. There was no doubt about that. But at some time I decided that health was just as important, perhaps even more so. I put health…
