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Show :2i Serious damaae results from Wood pressure information ask your Hr'e Association. ,H J U;ld also smoking is an added coronary cor-onary risk factor; In suitable cases, reduction of salt intake in the diet, if your doctor prescribes it. You and your doctor can work together now to control your blood pressure and reduce your risk of having a heart attack. at-tack. Meanwhile scientists all over the world are working to discover and eliminate the underlying un-derlying causes of all cardiovascular cardio-vascular diseases. Give yourself a head start in heading off heart attacks. For advice about your heart, always ask your doctor. For Is your blood pressure going up? It could be creeping up quietly without you being aware of it. That is, unless you have had it checked by your doctor. This is definitely not a case of "What you don't know won't hurt you," the Utah Heart Association warns. Not only can hypertension (high blood pressure) do serious ser-ious damage to blood vessels, heart and kidneys; it also considerably con-siderably increases the patient's pa-tient's risk of developing coronary cor-onary heart disease. In the past 15 years medicine medi-cine has achieved dramatic success in modifying the course of hypertension. Between 1950 and 1962 the death rate from hypertension dropped 52 among middle-aged American men and women. The secret weapon in the successful counterattack o n hypertension is drugs, several of which, used singly or in various var-ious combinations, can bring down high blood pressure and keep it down if the disease is detected and treated early. The new pressure-lowering drugs are only a part, but the major part, of the attack on hypertension. Other measures to control blood pressure include: in-clude: Reduction of excess weight, since overweight aggravates the condition and the risk of heart attack; Cessation of cigarette smoking, smok-ing, because smoking just one or two cigarettes brings an immediate im-mediate rise in blood pressure |