Precautions at an early age help limit high blood pressure

Chicago Sun-Times | October 4, 1990| | Copyright

Q. Is high blood pressure inherited? My mother had it and was never treated for it. Now that I am an adult, I also have it. I am under treatment. I wish I had understood about it when I was younger.

A. Early recognition of high blood pressure might spare many adults the need for expensive and bothersome control measures.

It's almost a certainty that genes play some role in high blood pressure. Right now, your guess is as good as mine as to just how that inheritance is expressed. Perhaps a tendency to be overweight or to have other high blood pressure-related conditions, which seem also ...

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