Get Up And Do Something: Keeping Blood Pressure in Check

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Keeping Blood Pressure in Check Jan 30th 2013, 11:08 Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease. Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have it under control, up from 29 percent in 2000. But that means more than half, including many receiving treatment, have blood pressure that remains too high to be healthy. (A normal blood pressure is lower than 120 over 80.) With a plethora of drugs available to normalize blood pressure, why are so many people still at increased risk of disease, disability and premature death? Hypertension experts offer a few common, and correctable, reasons:

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