Better Health & Beyond — High Blood Pressure
Treating Hypertension with Medications
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Simple lifestyle changes can help reduce high blood pressure, although some people may need to take medicine as well. Your doctor can advise you about changes you can make to your lifestyle and discuss whether they think you'd benefit from medicine.
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High Blood Pressure - By the Numbers
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In 2017, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) released new guidelines for what constitutes high blood pressure, or hypertension.If these guidelines were applied to Barbadians, only 1 in 3 Barbadian adults, or 33 percent of the population, were considered to have high blood pressure, which was defined as a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg (millimeters of mercury). The new guidelines define high blood pressure as 130/80 mmHg.
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