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Article: Hypertension: could your life be at risk? High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, and renal failure, but one out of four people don't even know they have it.
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- Healthy Years
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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If you're over 60, there's a good chance that you have hypertension. High blood pressure affects at least 65 million Americans, rarely presents any symptoms, and, if left untreated, can have fatal consequences.
Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in a recent issue of the American Heart Association's (AHA) journal Hypertension, revealed that in 2003-2004, only 37 percent of people with hypertension were successfully keeping their blood pressure under control.
Hypertension was reported as the primary or contributing cause of death in more than ...