Videos in A'ani, Nakoda help blood pressure control

Press release

A video tailored to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation will start helping people track and control a serious health problem — high blood pressure.

High blood pressure is the condition most commonly linked to stroke. Three out of 4 first-time stroke victims have high blood pressure. Controlling high blood pressure is critical to the prevention of death and disability resulting from stroke.

Fortunately, the “silent killer” may also be the most easily managed of all the risk factors for stroke.

“If you don’t know what your blood pressure is, then you don’t know if it is quietly dam...