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40 percent of  English people between 30 and 70 years of age have high blood pressure.
Only half of the Britains over 40 years know their blood pressure.
Between 12,000 and 14,000 people affected each year by stroke (blood clot in the brain, or cerebral hemorrhage).
Over 50,000 lives from WITH consequences.
A blood pressure of 140/90 is considered a normal blood pressure. More than a million adults in the UK have high blood pressure. But it is only half, who is aware of it, even though the disease increases the risk of blood clots and brain bleeding significantly.

High blood pressure is costing  society each year many resources in terms of lost earnings, hospital admissions and premature death for citizens. But especially on a personal level the impact can be very extensive, since high blood pressure increases the risk of blood clots in the brain and brain bleeding significantly, just as the whole 2,000 Danes die each year as a result of high blood pressure. Anyway, there is as yet no official Danish plan on how the fight against high blood-pressure will be optimized.

An action plan for better blood pressure
"The current effort against elevated blood pressure is simply not good enough. As it is today, discovered the elevated blood pressure often only when the patient has suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism. It is not good enough, when high blood pressure can be readily diagnosed, and when treatment options are good and easily accessible ". So says Chief Consultant Helle Rasmussen from Lif and points out that the first step on the way to bring down the problems as a result of high blood pressure could be that all persons over 45 years of age each year measured their blood pressure.

This point of view, Ibsen, as His chief medical officer is Denmark's leading specialist in hypertension, agrees.

"There is only one way for realization of high blood pressure, and it is to measure it. This does not mean that all people who have a slightly elevated blood pressure, in medical treatment, but if half a year of healthy life style, for example, has not worked, then it will be both unreasonable and indefensible not to treat the people medical".

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