Life is busy. Many of my patients are so busy that they, to paraphrase Gustav Stresemann, are walking “on the edge of a volcano.” It just takes one small event to teeter over the brink. When life is this hectic, it can be easy to neglect something that isn’t causing you any symptoms. Blood pressure is just one of those things. They don’t call it the “silent killer” for nothing. High blood pressure stalks many of us from middle age without us knowing, waiting for an opportunity to push us over the edge. Continue reading....