Blood pressure medications: blood pressure drugs are highly effective, but you need to manage them effectively, and work to keep your BP at healthy levels.(Disease/Disorder overview)

From: Healthy Years | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

If you are 60 or older, you or someone you know probably has high blood pressure. More than half of Americans in that age group have the condition, according to the National Institutes of Health. But do you have your blood pressure under control? A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that many people have poor control and treatment of their blood pressure, especially older women.

High blood pressure means the top (systolic) number is over 140, and the bottom (diastolic) number is over 90. (For example: 145/95 mm/Hg.) Both numbers ...

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