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Do you have high blood pressure?

If your systolic reading is 130 or higher

or your diastolic number is over 80,

you have hypertension. This is the People's Pharmacy with

Terry and Joe Grayden. New guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American

College of Cardiology added 25 million American adults to the numbers of people with hypertension.

That's because the cutoff was lowered to 130 over 80.

What should you do if your blood pressure is in the newly defined range of hypertension.

Treatment usually involves a prescription, but there are non-drug approaches that can be

effective. How about sitting in a sauna? Can you use the relaxation response?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy,

find out how you may be able to control your blood pressure

without medication.

First, the news.

In the news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Chigger Bites, like Tic Bites, may trigger a life-threatening reaction to meat.

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