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VIDEO: Love Your Heart Event Draws Thousands

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The County of San Diego’s Love Your Heart is a one-day, annual event in which organizations from across the U.S. and Mexico join together to provide free blood pressure screenings to the public on Valentine’s Day. Last year’s event helped over 50,000 people get to know their blood pressure numbers and take charge of their own […]

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VIDEO: ‘Love Your Heart’ Urges Residents to ‘Know Your Numbers’

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Do you “know your numbers?” The County of San Diego and its partners provided free blood pressure screenings to the public at select sites throughout the region on Valentine’s Day so people could take charge of their own heart health. The screenings took place at over 170 sites around the county as part of the […]

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Love Your Heart ‘Saved My Life’

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He thought he was healthy. Gabe Gutierrez was in his mid-20s and exercised almost daily. He was a vegetarian. But a blood pressure screening at a Love Your Heart event six years ago showed otherwise. His blood pressure was extremely high. “That can’t be right,” thought Gutierrez, who was cajoled by a co-worker into having […]