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Article: High blood pressure 'will aff lict half of all adults by 2025'.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2007
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Byline: FIONA MACRAE
THE strains of modern life could cause a heart disease epidemic as experts warned last night that more than half of adults could soon have high blood pressure.
Long, stressful working hours and a growing appetite for fatty, salty fast food are putting the health of tens of millions at risk.
A third of adults have high blood pressure, which doubles the risk of dying of a heart attack or stroke.
But soon the 'silent killer' could affect 22 million Britons - half of adults.
The condition, which often goes unnoticed until it is too late, already affects more than 16million Britons and kills tens of thousands a year.
It is the leading ...