Keeping your blood pressure under control is key to staying healthy, but many of us don’t realise there’s a problem before it’s too late…
Around one in four adults in the UK are thought to have hypertension, aka high blood pressure.* This condition increases our risk of heart, brain and kidney disease, yet we often dismiss it. This is possibly because high blood pressure is usually symptom-free until it starts to cause damage, which is why it’s been dubbed the silent killer.
Without treatment, it can cause numerous health
