According to a study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, “If we were to eliminate prehypertension, we could potentially prevent about 47 percent of all heart attacks,” said the study’s lead author Adnan I. Qureshi, M.D., professor and director of the Cerebrovascular Program in the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
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Blood Pressure - normal, prehypertension, hypertension, what is the risk?
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