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High Blood Pressure: 9 Steps to Rein in Skyrocketing Numbers
If you live with high blood pressure, you're familiar with the side effects of anti-hypertensive medications. Fortunately, medications are not the only way to rein in high blood pressure.
Lifestyle plays a key role. By altering some choices you make, you can avoid or reduce the need for medications.
Here are 9 steps that will start you towards blood pressure control.
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