Millions of Americans Have High Blood Pressure and Don't Know it
Aug 14, 2025
A staggering 103 million American adults suffer from hypertension, also known as high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a severe condition because it significantly increases your risk of a heart attack, stroke, kidney disease, and vision loss. It can also lead to heart failure and even vascular dementia.
Even worse, many people don’t realize this danger is lurking inside their blood vessels until it’s too late. Though high blood pressure seriously threatens your health, it rarely elicits symptoms in the early, most treatable stages.
At Tru Medical Management, with offices in Brooklyn's Navy Hill and Williamsburg neighborhoods, our medical team advocates preventive care, including routine blood pressure checks.
For most, hypertension elicits no symptoms, even when at extremely high levels. Symptoms usually only appear as hypertension reaches life-threatening levels.
When these do occur, they typically take the form of:
High blood pressure contributes to or causes the deaths of about 400,000 Americans every year.
A simple and painless blood pressure check is all it takes to diagnose high blood pressure. At our practice, it’s one of the first things we record with every patient at their annual physical, or who comes to the office for any ailment. In less than 30 seconds, we can put a cuff on you and get a reading — it’s as simple as that.
That’s great news because once you know you have high blood pressure, there are plenty of ways to lower it.
If you have hypertension, our physicians will develop a personalized treatment plan that may include one or more of the following:
High blood pressure isn’t curable, but it can be effectively managed to prevent complications.
The only way to know where your blood pressure stands is through reliable testing conducted by medical professionals. It can provide insights into both acute and chronic health issues.
Without regular testing, you can only suspect where your blood pressure is, and that’s done by evaluating your risk factors. There are many potential factors, and they can work alone or together to create hypertension. Some of the most common factors are:
Millions of people across the country are unaware they have high blood pressure. Don’t be one of them. Book a physical at Tru Medical Management. We have offices in Brooklyn's Navy Hill and Williamsburg neighborhoods. Call the closest location, or request an appointment using the online booking tool.