Anyone can get it
Our expert Dr Martin Bell discusses how anyone can get high blood pressure.
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Presenter - So you can be fat or thin, man or woman
Martin - Absolutely
Presenter - And you could get high blood pressure?
Martin - Absolutely right, which is one of the important factors, you cannot see you know you cannot look at somebody and say that person's got high blood pressure
Presenter - Right, they've not got steam coming out of their ears or anything like that?
Martin - Not got steam coming out of their ears, no, not blowing a gasket or anything like that, no, and that's one of the sort of spooky things slightly because you may be very fit, you may go jogging, you may have a perfect lifestyle, may have a very good diet, and still quietly in the background your arteries could be being furred up by having high blood pressure.
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