Blood Pressure Awareness Campaign 2012

The 2012 Blood Pressure Awareness day will take place on Saturday 12 May. Further details will be posted here in the New Year.

Blood Pressure Awareness Campaign 2011

On 14 May and 21 May the Stroke Foundation delivered its third national blood pressure campaign. The aim of the campaign is to provide information to shoppers about high blood pressure and other risk factors for stroke, and to offer free blood pressure checks.

This year the campaign welcomed a new partner – Rotary, who along with previous partners St John and Foodstuffs, helped plan and deliver the campaign across the country.

The campaign built on the model of the previous awareness day in 2009. While the National Stroke Foundation took a national coordinating role, St John provided volunteers to take the blood pressures at the blood pressure sites and Rotary managed the sites. Foodstuffs provided the main venues for the sites in their New World and Foodstuffs supermarkets. A few other venues were also established in other public places staffed by local health professionals.

Over 120 sites participated in 2011. You can read the results of this year's survey here.

For more information about what blood pressure is, what causes high blood pressure, and ways to reduce it and keep healthy download our leaflet About Blood Pressure (pdf 2Mb).

View our Down with Blood Pressure Campaign video below.

Monitoring Your Own Blood Pressure

Increasingly New Zealanders are monitoring their own blood pressure using battery operated digital monitors. The Stroke Foundation has prepared a short video demonstrating the correct use of two blood pressure monitors.