If you've been prescribed blood pressure medication, don't leave it sitting on the shelf. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people who had been on blood pressure drugs for up to 22 years lived a day longer for every month they took their meds. If you start in your fifties, that could add nine months to your life.

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