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Article: Medication or meditation . . . which is REALLY going to cut my blood pressure? CONVENTIONAL COMPLEMENTARY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2005
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Byline: LUCY MAYHEW
HIGH blood pressure is the most common cause of death and disability in Britain, with almost half of the 240,000 heart failure-related deaths linked to it.
Blood pressure is the force exerted by blood on the walls of the arteries when the heart beats. Sixteen million people in the UK have high blood pressure, or hypertension, but only ten per cent manage to bring it under control.
CONVENTIONAL
NINETY-FIVE per cent of hypertension cases have no definite cause. There are no symptoms and it can be detected only by having your blood pressure level measured, normally by a GP or by using a home-testing kit.
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