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As Americans get older and fatter, the number of adults with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, putting more people at risk of a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure, government researchers said Monday.
A little more than a decade ago, the number was closer to one in four. And two decades ago, it was falling. But then came the obesity surge in the late ’80s.


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