Category: Blood Pressure
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What is cardiovascular disease?
At Healthy Telford, we often talk about cardiovascular disease (CVD) and keeping your heart healthy. But what does that mean? Cardiovascular disease is the name for a group of conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. Your heart and blood vessels work together to move blood around your body.…
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Drop in and get checked by our blood pressure checkers
Do you know if your blood pressure is high? High blood pressure has no symptoms and the consequences can be serious, so it’s important to know.
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We know our height and weight – why don’t we know our blood pressure?
By Ann Marie McShane, Public Health Nurse High blood pressure. You have probably heard your friends talk about it, you parents talk about it, and your doctor talk about it. But what do people mean when they say ‘blood pressure’ and does it matter if our blood pressure is a…
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5 reasons why you need to get your blood pressure checked
The only way to know whether you have high blood pressure is to have it measured – before its too late…