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The Controllable Risks For High Blood Pressure
By admin | July 8, 2008
Although you cannot control some of the risks associated with high blood pressure, such as age, race and family history, there are several factors which fall fairly and squarely within your control. These risks include such things as your weight and lifestyle, with high weight and a secondary lifestyle being significant contributory factors to high blood pressure. Then comes smoking which is not only a major contributory factor in high blood pressure, but also plays a key role in the development of a range of other conditions. Salt too is not good for you in too high a quantity and the same applies to alcohol. All of these risk factors are totally controllable and monitoring these, and making use of one of the many excellent blood pressure monitors available for use at home today will go a long way towards ensuring that you do not become one of the 50,000 Americans who die each year from high blood pressure.
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