By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Medical experts are urging young adults in South Africa to get their blood pressure tested and avoid being another statistic of the silent killer - hypertension. According to the International Society for Hypertension, nearly 50-percent of those over the age of 15 have high blood pressure. Even more alarming is that only 50-percent know that they have hypertension, leaving the rest undiagnosed and untreated. Cardiologist, Dr Warren Muller says a simple blood pressure test can prevent an individual from the risk of a life-threatening cardiac disease or other health consequences related to hypertension...

By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Medical experts are urging young adults in South Africa to get their blood pressure tested and avoid being another statistic of the silent killer - hypertension. According to the International Society for Hypertension, nearly 50-percent of those over the age of 15 have high blood pressure. Even more alarming is that only 50-percent know that they have hypertension, leaving the rest undiagnosed and untreated. Cardiologist, Dr Warren Muller says a simple blood pressure test can prevent an individual from the risk of a life-threatening cardiac disease or other health consequences related to hypertension...

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