eHealth Connection | Cooper University Hospital

High blood pressure (also called hypertension) increases your chances of having a heart attack, heart failure, stroke, kidney disease and other life-threatening conditions. Anyone can get it, and as you get older—and heavier—your odds increase.

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The sweating starts first. Nausea follows. Then comes a heaviness in the chest that won’t go away. Something is wrong and you need to get help.

“Nearly 1.5 million people suffer heart attacks each year in the U.S., and almost no one has a plan for what to do or where to go,” says Perry J. Weinstock, M.D., Director of Clinical Cardiology at Cooper University Hospital and past president of the South Jersey Regional Board of Directors of the American Heart Association. Read the full story