High Blood Pressure: What You Need to Know

Kimiko Griffin, Linda B. Bobroff, and LaToya J. O’Neal

Release Date: 3/3/2024

DOI: 10.32473/edis-fy199-2008

Family and Consumer Sciences

Abstract

A UF/IFAS numbered Fact Sheet. Published by Health and Wellness

About this Publication

This document is FCS8638 (originally adapted from the NHLBI/NIH fact sheet Facts about How to Prevent High Blood Pressure by Linda B. Bobroff), one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2002. Revised October 2012, October 2016, March 2018, and January 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Kimiko Griffin; Linda B. Bobroff, RD, LD/N, professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; and LaToya J. O'Neal; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

How to Cite

Bobroff, L. B. (2008). High Blood Pressure: What You Need to Know. EDIS, 2008(7). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fy199-2008

Authors

Linda Bobroff

professor emeritus, UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences

LaToya O'Neal

Contact

Specialist

University of Florida

state program leader, health and wellness Extension; and associate professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences