# High Blood Pressure Basics

When left untreated, hypertension can cause life-threatening consequences like stroke or heart attack. Find out what's really happening in your body when your heart is working overtime due to high blood pressure.

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Blood_Pressure_Basics.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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