MEN will get free blood pressure checks at barbershops under NHS plans. The tests could help prevent thousands of heart attacks every year by spotting signs of hypertension early, health chiefs say…
A further 2.5 million blood pressure checks will also be given in community pharmacies.
It comes as new research, presented at the European Society of Cardiology in Amsterdam, showed men are at significantly greater risk of heart attacks than women.Researchers also adjusted for a range of factors including ethnicity, deprivation, BMI, physical activity, alcohol intake and smoking status.Compared to women, the relative risk for men of experiencing heart attacks and peripheral artery disease was two-fold higher.
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