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Article: Lessening The Pressure.(includes meal plan and blood pressure stages chart)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
- Author:
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Array of Drugs Tames Hypertension
Regular Checkups Essential to Catch Symptomless Condition
The "silent killer"--hypertension, or high blood pressure--snuck up on my mother when she was in her 40s, making its presence known by causing congestive heart failure and resulting in several lengthy hospital stays.
Though her blood pressure measured as high as 250/150 during those initial touch-and-go days, she's maintained a much-closer-to-normal blood pressure for the past 30 years, thanks to daily doses of antihypertensive drugs.
Today's range of drugs for treating high blood pressure makes it possible for people like my mother and the ...