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All About Hypertension - High Blood Pressure |
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What is High Blood Pressure?
When you have your blood pressure taken, your health care provider is measuring
the pressure, or tension, that blood exerts on the walls of the blood vessels as
it travels around the body. In a healthy person, this pressure is just enough
for the blood to reach all the cells of the body, but not so much that it
strains blood vessel walls.
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