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Pudsey Rotary Club keeps pressure in check

The Rotary Club of Pudsey, The Stroke Association and the Local Health Authority are working in partnership for the fourth year running to help combat high blood pressure, the single biggest risk factor for stroke. A day of free blood pressure measuring will be held on Friday 7th April 2006 for local residents and workers at The Owlcotes Shopping
Centre, Pudsey from 10am – 4pm.

The campaign has proven to be extremely successful over the past three years, with
record numbers of people getting their blood pressure measured. This year we hope to encourage more than 30,000 people throughout the UK to take advantage of this free health check.

Paul Hanson, Pudsey Rotary Club says :” We hope local residents will stop by our stand on Friday 7th April and have their blood pressure measured. It will only take a few
minutes but it could help save lives. “

Every three minutes someone in the UK has a stroke. It is the largest single cause of
severe disability. For every ten people who die of stroke, four could have been saved if they had arranged regular blood pressure measurements and then followed medical
advice.

There are often no symptoms of high blood pressures, so these measurements are vitally important, particularly as more than 150,000 people in the UK suffer a first stroke each year.


Contact details
For more information on the Blood Pressure Measuring Day please contact
Paul Hanson, Rotary Club of Pudsey on 0113 2393300
or by email pbh@hansontravel.co.uk

For further information about stroke and The Stroke Association
please visit www.stroke.org.uk

For further information about Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland
please visit www.rotary-ribi.org

 

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