News Item – High blood pressure draining Canada’s health-care system, suggests study

A new study says treating high blood pressure eats up roughly 10 per cent of Canada’s health-care budget, and those costs are growing.

The research comes from the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, and was published in the Hypertension medical journal. It says nine out of 10 people will develop the condition during their lives.

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