The UK’s leading patient-focused charity dedicated to lowering the nations blood pressure to prevent stroke, heart and kidney disease
Our vision is for everyone to know their blood pressure numbers in the same way they know their height or weight and take steps to keep them healthy, both now and in the future.
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Be in the KNOW! Know Your Numbers Week! 2025
16 July 2025
With unhealthy lifestyles and poor diet contributing to more young people in their 30s, 40s and 50s being diagnosed with hypertension and around 1 in 3 people in the UK now living with high blood pressure, this year’s Know Your Numbers! Week is urging all adults (of all ages) to make the time to check their blood pressure.
Dr Pauline Swift, Chair of Blood Pressure UK
15 July 2025
Explains why Knowing Your Numbers! could save YOUR life.
Celebrating our bloody amazing kidneys
15 July 2025
Our kidneys filter our blood 40 times a day, every day and keep our other organs working properly. However it’s possible to lose up to 90% of your kidney function without realising as the signs or symptoms of kidney disease are often confused with other illnesses.