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Article: Kmart Pharmacy Recognizes American Heart Month With National Healthy Heart Events.
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- February 2, 2007
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Kmart Pharmacists Offer One-Day, Free Blood Pressure Screenings and Healthy Heart Information
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, and research suggests that uncontrolled high blood pressure and obesity are contributing factors to the development of the disease. To help create more awareness of heart disease and its risk factors, during American Heart Month Kmart is hosting an in-store Healthy Heart Event at the more than 1,100 Kmart Pharmacies nationwide.
An estimated 65 million Americans have high blood pressure and nearly one third of them aren't even aware they have it.
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