For Immediate Release:
Contact: Tony Cao
A&D Medical
(408) 518-5125
Relief for Those Stressed-out, Last Minute, Tax Day Blues
San Francisco, Calif. -- So you swear your blood pressure seems to rise when you think about the looming deadline for submitting your 1999 tax forms (Monday, April 17, this year).
Your head spins when you think of your business receipts filed in empty shoeboxes. Or how about your auto expense book that the dog mistook for a bone?
This year, relief is available for accountants and taxpayers alike in the San Francisco area. LifeSource, a leading manufacturer of blood pressure monitors based in Milpitas, Calif., will deliver home blood pressure monitors to accountants and their customers who may be under particular stress during the coming week at local IRS offices and selected H & R Block locations. A free monitor also is being sent to the San Francisco Chapter of Certified Public Accountants.
For taxpayers, free blood pressure monitoring will be available at the post office at 1300 Evans Avenue in San Francisco on Monday, April 17, from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. to help them monitor their blood pressure as they close the books on their 1999 taxes. Volunteers from the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses will participate in the screening along with LifeSourceŽ representatives, who will distribute information about the importance of controlling your blood pressure.
"We wanted to give taxpayers an opportunity to monitor their health during an unusually stressful time," says Steve Hibbard, director of A & D Medical, the makers of Lifesource. "Many scientific studies have shown that chronic stress can contribute to high blood pressure, which has no symptoms in its early stages."
Hypertension is the most undertreated cardiovascular condition in the United States today, affecting roughly 20 percent of the population, or about 50 million people. According to a 1997 study by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure, only 27 percent of individuals with high blood pressure are adequately controlled, leaving 36 million people at risk of strokes, heart attacks and other health problem.
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