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What is high blood pressure? What is cardiovascular disease? What are the consequences? Can they be controlled? Can they be treated? What medications are there? How do they work?

If you have high blood pressure or are at risk for cardiovascular disease, you may have been asking yourself questions like these. This site has been designed to help find some clear, easy to understand answers.

High blood pressure and cardiovascular disease are extremely common health problems faced by millions of people across the globe. However the positive side to this is that you are not alone and a great deal of help and support is available.

On this website you will find the following information on hypertension and cardiovascular disease, split into 4 sections:

What is hypertension?

The definition, causes and potential consequences.

What is cardiovascular disease?

The definition, causes and potential consequences.

Managing hypertension and cardiovascular disease

What can be done to control hypertension and prevent cardiovascular disease; talking to your doctor about these conditions, understanding how to make the right changes in your everyday life, being aware of the available medications and knowing how they work.

Resource centre

This centre provides additional resources including downloadable information for you to keep and read as you want and links to other useful sources of advice. It also contains a useful Risk Calculator which lets you work out your level of risk of having heart related problems in the future, simply by entering some basic information such as age and blood pressure.

All of this site’s contents are available free of charge and can be printed for your own use. Hopefully after exploring this site you will have some more answers and will better understand what high blood pressure is and how, with the help of your doctor, you can combat it.

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