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From quitting smoking to safe exercise and laughing your way to a healthier heart, here are helpful tips on living with and managing your high blood pressure.

Living and Coping

Be proactive about your care. Ask your doctor these high blood pressure questions about your high blood pressure.

What causes hypertension? What constitutes a normal blood pressure? How is hypertension treated? Get the answers to these and other frequently asked questions.

Most medicines aren't affected by grapefruit juice, but more than 50 medicines are -- including those for high blood pressure. Is yours on the list? Find out.

Eating less sodium may help lower your high blood pressure. These five tips show you how to cut back.

Small changes can have a big impact on your health. Here are several handy tips on how to incorporate the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet into your daily life.

Personal Stories

Personal stories of people living and coping with hypertension.

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Show or hide information about video: How Hypertension Affects Cardiac Risk   How Hypertension Affects Cardiac Risk

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Jonathan Sackner Bernstein, MD, talks about high blood pressure and its effect on cardiac diseases

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