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Article: Americans Still Need Help Tackling Blood Pressure - Many Doctors Recommend Home Monitors as Management Tool -.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 30, 1998
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent health figures show that Americans are losing control over their blood pressure. After declining for 20 years, rates of stroke, heart disease and end-stage kidney disease -- direct complications of hypertension -- are steadily rising, and the American Heart Association estimates that 50 million people have high blood pressure. (Squires, AHA)
This is particularly problematic given the results of a new study that suggest that even "high-normal" blood pressure may be too high. In a recent study of 18,790 hypertensive patients, researchers found that if they lowered blood pressure below what has been considered ...