Health advice

Managing high blood pressure

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Stay in control of your blood pressure

High blood often happens without any warning signs. If left untreated it can lead to serious illnesses like heart failure and stroke. Find out how you can monitor and lower your blood pressure with lifestyle changes and medicine.

What is high blood pressure?

Around 13.5 million people have high blood pressure in the UK.1 You might also hear high blood pressure being called hypertension.

How healthy is your heart?

Take the Heart Age Test from the NHS to find out how your heart age compares to your real age.

High blood pressure and Covid

If you get coronavirus, you’re more likely to become seriously ill if you have high blood pressure.2

Know Your Numbers Week

Know Your Numbers Week is here to remind you to start taking regular blood pressure readings. You can do this at home or at your local Well.

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Get clinical support with your high blood pressure

There are many reasons why you might have high blood pressure.

Pre-existing health conditions can cause high blood pressure, including:

  • Diabetes
  • Kidney disease or infection
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea
  • Glomerulonephritis – damage to the tiny filters inside the kidneys
  • Hormone problems
  • Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus).3

Our pharmacists can give you lifestyle advice and prescribe treatment, if necessary, to help you manage your blood pressure.

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Reviewed by: Mital Thakrar

Review date: March 2022

Next review: March 2025

References
  1. Context | Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE. Accessed December 7, 2020. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng136/chapter/Context
  2. Coronavirus: what it means for you if you have heart or circulatory disease. Accessed December 1, 2020. https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health
  3. High blood pressure (hypertension). nhs.uk. Published October 23, 2017. Accessed December 1, 2020. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/high-blood-pressure-hypertension/
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