West Virginia school-based screening reveals significant high blood pressure rate

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 06:40 in Health & Medicine

It's not easy to wrangle fifth graders from noisy school hallways to get their blood pressure checked. But with an age-adjusted death rate due to heart disease substantially above the national average, West Virginia has a good reason to try...

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