The call was a strange one and I will never forget it. I was seeing patients and was interrupted by my nurse.
“The ER wants to talk with you, it’s an emergency.”
The Silent Killer: High Blood Pressure
Hypertension can be easy to treat but difficult to notice—unless you look for it
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It's estimated that nearly half of all American adults have hypertension. Gligatron/Shutterstock
By Peter Weiss, MD
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