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Rise in blood pressure woesparallels U.S. aging, obesity
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Daily Breeze
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August 24, 2004
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DALLAS -- As Americans get older and fatter, the number of adults
with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the
past decade, putting more people at risk of a stroke, heart attack or
kidney failure, government researchers said Monday.
A little more than a decade ago, the number was closer to one in
four. And two decades ago, it was falling. But then came the obesity
surge in the late '80s.
"It's not surprising because we've seen that Americans are getting
fatter, and we know that blood pressure goes up when people gain
weight," said Dr. David Goff, an epidemiology expert at Wake Forest
University School of Medicine in North Carolina, who was not involved
in the analysis ...
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