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Article: American Heart Association announces web resource for help in reducing high blood pressure.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- June 30, 2002
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2002 JUN 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- May was 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, announced the fastest, most accurate and credible information about high blood pressure: 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 ...