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Article: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE ALERT SOUNDED
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- United Press International
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- November 9, 1998
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United Press International
11-09-1998
High blood pressure alert sounded
UPI Science News
DALLAS, Nov. 8 (UPI) _ A top national health official sounded ``a call
to action,'' telling U.S. doctors to aggressively treat people with
high blood pressure in order to continue progress in fighting heart
disease and stroke.
Dr. Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute in Bethesda, Md., said despite three decades of steady
success, there is a disturbing trend in the wrong direction, which
Lenfant ties to failures in adequately identifying and treating people
with high blood pressure.
In a symposium at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in
Dallas, experts ...