Blood pressure – why you need to know your numbers, and how to get a heart check for free
"Blood pressure is what we call the silent killer," said Sindhu Koshy, Ascension Providence cardiologist. "Imagine it this way, your vessels are like pipe. So if the pipe is really tight, now your heart has to push really hard to get blood out of that pipe. Your heart doesn't want to work that hard. It wants things to be really easy, it wants the easiest path. "If the heart starts to struggle, then eventually it fails, which can cause…