People in their thirties and forties could be 'quietly damaging the heart' without realising

Brits with “normal” blood pressure have been issued a warning as they could still be at risk of a “silent killer” condition. New research has found that people in their thirties and forties who have a “normal but high” blood pressure reading could be “quietly damaging the heart”.

This could be happening “long before symptoms appear”, and increasing the chance of a heart attack or stroke. In an update from the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the charity explained more.

It shared the results of a study funded by the BHF and published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging . As part of this study of more than 450 people, the team from University College London (UCL) discovered t

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