- What is it?
- What are the symptoms?
- How common is it?
- What will happen to me?
- How do doctors diagnose it?
- Questions to ask your doctor
- What treatments work?
- Summary
If you have high blood pressure you probably won't feel ill. But having high blood pressure increases your risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. It can also lead to kidney disease and heart failure.
We've brought together the best research about high blood pressure and weighed up the evidence about how to treat it. You can use our information to talk to your doctor and decide which treatments are best for you.
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