High blood pressure treatment was seen as one of the NHS’s biggest success stories of the 21st Century. But not any more.

The condition, also known as hypertension, is called a “silent killer”. It often causes no symptoms while being one of the single biggest causes of heart attacks and strokes.

For years, the NHS was making good progress with identifying affected patients and offering medicines that brought their blood pressure down to safer levels. New Feature

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But in the past decade, those improvements stopped. Then Covid hit, and they went into reverse, a study has shown. And blood pressure measures may still not have recovered, experts have said.

The trend may be due to a “perfect storm” of pressures, including unhealthier lifesty

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