Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure. “High blood pressure (also called hypertension) puts you at risk of many life-threatening problems,” says Rachel Goodman, MD, Chief Cardiology Fellow at Tufts Medical Center. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hypertension contributed to over 664,000 deaths in the United States in 2023.
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