High blood pressure awareness month

May is High Blood Pressure Awareness Month. Community Health Nurse Tammy Meier has advice for everyone concerning high blood pressure.

“High blood pressure is sometimes called the silent killer, with good reason, too,” she said. “It has few symptoms, but left untreated can dramatically increase the risk of heart attack or stroke.”

Around 30 percent of the adult population suffers from high blood pressure - or hypertension- yet many do not even realize it.

“It sounds obvious, but the only way of knowing if there’s a problem in the first place is to have it measured,” Meier poi...