If your blood pressure (BP) is 140/90 mmHG or thereabouts, you either have hypertension or are tending toward it. You can check your BP from rising and even lower it with a careful diet. Begin with a heart-friendly diet called the DASH eating plan.
Power of attorney. A medical or health care power of attorney is a type of advance directive in which you name a person to make decisions for you when you are unable to do so. In some states this directive may also be called a durable power of attorney for health care or a health care proxy. The person you name may be a spouse, other family member, friend or member of a faith community.
instructions about a person's wishes, goals, and values regarding what will be done in case he or she becomes incapable of making decisions about medical care; called also living will, durable power of attorney for health care, and sometimes advance health care directives or health care advance directives.