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Article: MORE THAN 750,000 NEW YORKERS IN DANGER OF HEART ATTACK OR STROKE DUE TO UNCONTROLLED HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 24, 2008
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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued the following press release:
More than three quarters of a million New Yorkers are at increased risk of heart attack or stroke due to dangerously high blood pressure, a new Health Department study shows. Of the nearly 1.5 million adult New Yorkers with high blood pressure, more than half (53%) do not have the condition under control. And because high blood pressure often progresses silently, a catastrophic event could be the first symptom many of them experience. High blood pressure is a leading of cause heart disease and stroke, which together take the lives of more than 24,000 New Yorkers every year.
The new findings, ...
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