WELCOME

Prof. Krzysztof Narkiewicz

Prof. Peter M. Nilsson

Welcome! We’re glad you’re here and chose to learn more about high blood pressure. You are the key to preventing high blood pressure, in yourself and your friends and family. Why do we believe that you are the key?

• You can make lifestyle changes that will prevent high blood pressure.
• You can make sure that your blood pressure is measured regularly—detection is the first step to treatment. If you have high blood pressure, “knowing your numbers” is a key to controlling it.
• You are a member of your health care team. You need reliable and accurate information to be an active member of your team.
• You can prevent the consequences of high blood pressure, by treating it everyday for the rest of your life. What are some of these consequences? Stroke and heart attack, kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease.
• You can share this information with your friends and family and encourage them to take action, too.

The European Society of Hypertension created its patient education website to ensure that you have timely access to credible, accurate information about high blood pressure.

High blood pressure is often called “the silent killer.” High blood pressure has no symptoms and so it does its damage without you knowing it. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Arm yourself against high blood pressure with the information in this website.

Spread the word about high blood pressure. Chances are that you know someone who has it—1 in 4 people have high blood pressure. For people over 60 years old, 1 in 2 people have high blood pressure. Encourage your family and friends to visit this website and have their blood pressure measured.

Visit this website often to continue your personal education about high blood pressure. Use the tools provided here, such as the checklists for lifestyle changes and the physician visit check list. Take the high blood pressure quiz. Read the news about high blood pressure research and treatment. Be involved. It is the best way to beat high blood pressure.

Professor Krzysztof Narkiewicz                      Professor Peter M. Nilsson

Editors, European Society of Hypertension Website