High Blood Pressure 101

(1 out of 1) Correct! The seminal Framingham study, tracking the lives and health of thousands of residents of Framingham, Masschusetts, for the last 40 years, has revealed that 90% of adults will become hypertensive in their lifetimes, even with high blood pressure defined by rather loose standard criteria. High blood pressure is not a condition affecting a minority, but eventually affects the great majority. Some people, of course, experience high blood pressure in their 20s, while others don't develop it until the seventh or eighth decade. But it eventually can affect nearly all of us.    Continue Quiz >