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High blood pressure has no symptoms, so you could have it and not be aware. nortonsx/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Many Americans wrongly assume they understand what normal blood pressure is – and that false confidence can be deadly

Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Mark Huffman, Washington University in St. Louis

Nearly half of all Americans ages 20 and up have high blood pressure. Yet research shows that most people in the US don’t know the cutoff numbers for healthy blood pressure.

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