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A lot of Canadian doctors agree that hypertension medications can be used to control high blood pressure when it is consistently above 140/90 mm Hg. There are a variety of medications that can be taken to help control high blood pressure (hypertension).

Heart disease is still Canada's #1 killer. What Canadian doctors regret is that most heart attacks could have been prevented by examining the heart disease risk factors. But people still are not getting the message that heart disease kills and taking the right pre-cautions can save you or a loved one's life.

A stroke is a 'Heart attack of the brain'. It occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery, one of the pipes that feeds blood to the brain. The reason that a stroke is so common and urgent is that brain tissue dies within a few minutes after the blood supply is stopped.