Getting your blood pressure facts straight may be more important to your health than you realize. The reason is that even if you think your blood pressure is where it should be, it’s still a good idea to get it checked and know what you’re doing to keep it in a healthy range.

Among the scariest blood pressure facts is the one that says that approximately 20 percent of Americans don’t realize they have hypertension (high blood pressure). They don’t know they have it because they haven’t experienced any symptoms. But that’s just it. It frequently doesn’t occur with obvious symptoms. Even those symptoms that do occur are often easy to mistake for something completely different such as indigestion. Continue reading →