High blood pressure is easy to detect – it takes only a few minutes and doesn’t require needles or laboratory tests. Relatively cheap, easy-to-use machines let people check their own blood pressure at home, and many high street pharmacies offer free checks. Yet new research suggests many adults in England are still walking around unaware they have it.
The problem may no longer be whether we can measure blood pressure, but whether we are looking for it in the right people and often enough.
