Know Your Numbers! Week 2024.

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This year’s campaign will take place from 2 – 8 September 2024. Every September, blood pressure checks are taken by thousands to prevent heart attacks and strokes. 

Know Your Numbers! Week reaches those who have high blood pressure and don’t know it, so they can get the treatment and support they need to bring it under control.

Home monitoring is an effective and inexpensive way to keep blood pressure under control and the evidence behind it continues to get stronger. It offers a way for YOU to take control of your health, feel confident, and take the pressure off the NHS at the same time. It gives you a practical way to Know Your Numbers! without visiting your GP, Practice Nurse, or Pharmacist in person. It puts you in the driver’s seat, and it really can save lives. 

High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses. Once you Know Your Numbers! you can get support to bring your blood pressure under control and prevent these diseases. 

Around a third of people in the UK have high blood pressure, but most don’t know it. It doesn’t have any symptoms so, the only way to find out is to have a blood pressure check. 

120/80
An ideal blood pressure is under 120/80mmHg.