Thanks, Alan for your latest update on an extremely IMPORTANT
topic, which - as you've pointed out - affects us ALL.

Because I'm diabetic, my own blood pressure's monitored on a regular basis. And it has to be said, I am very fortunate, in that, almost invariably, the health professionals treating me remark on how *good mine is for someone of my years - *this in spite of my mother needing to take tablets for HBP from the age of 48 ... up until her passing at eighty-four.

Perhaps, as I say, I've just been lucky in that respect. Who knows? But then ... ... at the same time, I'm well aware there're far too many others for whom hypertension remains a very real problem! So once again,