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Hypertension and the elderly

KUALA LUMPUR: Hypertension affects 45 per cent of people above 60 years old. Unfortunately many of warning signs in the elderly that include headaches and sleep disorders are often dismissed of ageing or are mistaken for symptoms of other ailments.

Writer Meera Murugesan talks to a consultant cardiologist on issues relating to hypertension in the elderly.

Read the full story in Life & Times tomorrow (May 5).

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