WELCOME
to Blood Pressure & Hypertension
The high blood pressure information web
site
The Purpose
of this web site is:
- To inform
patients about high blood pressure disease which concerns between 10% and
40% of the industrial populations,
- to allow you to deal
with your high blood pressure,
- to allow you to familiarize
yourself with the instruments of blood
pressure measurement.
Dear readers,
As you
probably know, high blood pressure is one of he most important cardiovascular
risk factor (as diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and tobacco)
all over the world.
Several
medical studies have demonstrated the relation between the knowledge
of that cardiovascular risk factor and its management: the more
the patients are informed and the hypertension is
managed.
That’s
the reason why this web site has been created in 2000
and is visited by more and more people.
Dr. P.
LAURENT, MD, PhD
blood-pressure-hypertension.com
Medical Manager
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