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Article: Blood pressure monitoring could save thousands of lives.(Features)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Byline: SANDRA CHAPMAN
SOME 62,000 deaths could be prevented in the UK each year if people paid more attention to their blood pressure levels, according to a new study.
Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman of the Blood Pressure Group and author of the study, has said that, if everyone in the UK with high blood pressure had it controlled to the target level, 21,000 deaths from stroke and 41,000 deaths from heart attacks could be avoided.
Blood pressure increases with age and the Stroke Association estimates that four in ten deaths caused by stroke ...