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Thank you, Danner. Today we're going to talk about hypertension. And what did I read recently?

30% of America has high blood pressure and another 30% are pre-hypertensive. It's crazy. It's actually

virtually the same as diabetes and pre-diabities and both both diabetes and hypertension significantly increase the risk for

dementia so it's really important for us to talk about as your blood pressure goes up, blood flow to the brain goes down.

Right, so hypertension is clearly the number one reason that patients go to see their

physician and your numbers are dead-owned. About 30 to 40 percent are

hypertense to define is greater than 140 over 90 millimeters of mercury and

then the pre-hypertensive is another whole group

for another 20 or 30 percent which is defined is greater than 121 over 89 so in that

range but hypertension is really not a disease. This is an important

concept. It's a process. Hypertension is related to three finite

responses in the artery,

inflammation, oxidative stress, and vascular immune dysfunction.

And what we've determined recently

is that if you look at children of hyper-tensive parents, they already have abnormalities of their

structure and function of the cardiovascular system.

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