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HYPERTENSION MANAGEMENT

The hypertension program will provide information on how to lower your blood pressure. Topics include:

• How to make blood-pressure-lowering lifestyle changes

• Medications used to treat blood pressure

• Blood pressure monitoring

• High blood pressure can be treated.
  
• Losing weight or eating less salt may produce good results.
  
• If you're on medication, be patient and don't stop treatment.  Report any side effects.
  
• It may take several weeks to adjust to a drug.
  
• Death rates from heart and blood vessel diseases, stroke, and kidney diseases have decreased significantly. This is probably due to earlier and better treatment of high blood pressure.