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Living Well to Keep Your Pressure Down

, Lori Wiggins, andLaToya O'Neal

Release Date: 3/3/2024

DOI: 10.32473/EDIS-FY305-2017

Family and Consumer Sciences

Abstract

High blood pressure, or hypertension, can cause serious health problems. It makes your heart work harder and can damage your blood vessels even if you feel okay. Everyone should have their blood pressure checked regularly. If you have certain risk factors, you are more likely to have high blood pressure. This fact sheet discusses risk factors and ways to reduce risk.

About this Publication

La version en español de este document es Viviendo Bien para Mantener su Presion Baja (FCS8690-Span). This document is FCS8690, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date August 2002. Revised November 2017 and January 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

How to Cite

Bobroff, L. B. (2017). Living Well to Keep Your Pressure Down. EDIS, 2017(6). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fy305-2017

Authors

Linda Bobroff
Linda Bobroff

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

Lori Wiggins
Lori Wiggins
County agent
University of Florida

Extension agent IV, family and consumer sciences, UF/IFAS Extension Taylor County, Perry, FL

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LaToya O'Neal
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

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