Check your BP regularly to avoid complications of stroke, heart disease and kidney failure

Persons aged 18 years old and above should start checking their blood pressure to know if they have high blood pressure or else take the risk of complications of stroke, heart disease and kidney failure, hypertension specialists said Tuesday.

Dr. Romeo Divinagracia, an hypertension specialist and president of the Philippine Society of Hypertension (PSH), who participated in the health forum at the Annabel’s Restaurant in Quezon City, said that many Filipinos actually do not know that they are already hypertensive.