High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Risk WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Risk
High blood pressure increases the risk of developing heart disease. Heart disease is a major cause of death in the United States, with high blood pressure being a common cause. This risk is due to the fact that high blood pressure causes the heart to have to work harder to pump blood.1
Fast Facts:
- Blood pressure is the force of blood circulating on the walls of the blood vessels.2
- High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a condition that occurs when a person's blood pressure is elevated.3
- While blood pressure is normally taken at the upper arm, it can be taken at other places of the body.2
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Health World: High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Risk
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wikipedia: Blood Pressure
- ↑ Wikipedia: Hypertension
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Heart Disease Risk and High Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure and Heart Disease Risk, Risk Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease Risk and Blood Pressure, Hypertension and Heart Disease Risk, Heart Disease Risk and Hypertension
- Last update: May 14, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
