Get your blood pressure checked out before Burton
will be playing his part in this year’s National Blood Pressure Testing Awareness week.Alan BennettAFC Wimbledon captain
home match on Saturday, 21 September. Burton AlbionIn collaboration with NHS South West London, AFC Wimbledon will be offering free blood pressure checks for all supporters before the
.Ivor HellerThere will be a team of NHS Live Well members at the front of the stadium providing checks from noon until kick-off. As part of this, they will be joined by the AFC Wimbledon first-team management, club captain Alan Bennett (pictured above) and Commercial Director
This year’s National Blood Pressure Testing Awareness week runs from 16-22 September and Wimbledon’s Community Football Scheme (CFS) are actively getting involved in the “Know Your Numbers” event.
There are very good reasons to have your blood pressure checked and these include the following:
• One in three adults (16 million) in the UK have high blood pressure.
• More than five million people don't know they have high blood pressure - that's why it's called the silent killer.
• People with high blood pressure are three times as likely to develop heart disease or suffer strokes, and twice as likely to die from these, as people with a normal blood pressure.
• Each year 125,000 adults in the UK have a heart attack or stroke in which high blood pressure is a key factor - that's a preventable stroke or heart attack every four minutes.
It’s all completely free on the day so please don’t hesitate to get yourself checked out with one of the NHS Live Well professionals on Saturday, 21 September.