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Article: Experts offer new warning on systolic blood pressure
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2000
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Experts offer new warning on systolic blood pressure
First number in reading is said to be crucial
By LEE BOWMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
Friday, May 5, 2000
New guidelines warn that all Americans -- particularly the elderly
-- need to pay more attention to the first number in blood pressure
readings, because it seems to be the key in determining whether a
person has hypertension.
The revised recommendations on systolic blood pressure, issued by
the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, represent a major
shift in the way doctors will be diagnosing and treating high blood
pressure.
An estimated 50 million Americans have high blood pressure, often
called the "silent killer" because it ...