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Article: American Heart Association Announces Tips for National High Blood Pressure Education Month; Online Help for Reducing Hypertension May Be Only a 'Click' Away.
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- April 17, 2002
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DALLAS -- This May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month. To help educate Americans about their risks for stroke and heart diseases, the American Heart Association and its division, the American Stroke Association, announce the fastest, most accurate and credible information about High Blood Pressure: http://www.americanheart.org/hbp .
Perhaps one of the least known risk factors for stroke and heart disease in the general public is high blood pressure, or hypertension. About 50 million Americans aged 6 and older have high blood pressure. Of these, nearly one-third don't know they have it.
"Education is the first step and possibly the best ...