Everyone with high blood pressure — some 72 million Americans — should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers.
Heart specialists suggest buying personal blood-pressure monitor
Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 8:03 p.m. CDT;
updated 12:41 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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