Are You At Risk? (4pg)

About 75% of people who have a stroke for the first time also have high blood pressure.

Also known as hypertension, high blood pressure is one of the three key risk factors for heart disease. The other two are high cholesterol (LDL) levels and smoking. Almost half of Americans (49%) have a least one of the these three risk factors. For example, 67 million Americans have high blood pressure. One-third have high cholesterol levels, and about 18% of Americans still smoke..