High Blood Pressure: What You Need to Know1
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What You Need to Know about High Blood Pressure
This document, adapted from the NHLBI/NIH fact sheet Facts about How to Prevent High Blood Pressure, explains the currently known elements of High Blood Pressure--a condition that affects about one in every three American adults, yet often has no symptoms.
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This document is FCS8638, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date February 26, 2002. Revised August 27, 2008. Visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Adapted from the NHLBI/NIH fact sheet "Facts About How to Prevent HIgh Blood Pressure" by Linda B. Bobroff, PhD, RD, LD/N, and professor, Foods and Nutrition; Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL 32611.
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