The article states that, “the procedure is simple enough that some experts suggest it could ultimately revolutionize the way providers risk-assess their patients for cardiovascular disease, making it more possible than ever to short-circuit the course of cardiovascular disease before it has the chance to do damage.” Jay N. Cohn, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division at the University of Minnesota explains, “If you look at patients who have had a heart attack, more than half of them had normal blood pressure readings and more than half had normal cholesterol. So, if you just sit and wait for cholesterol to be elevated or for blood pressure to be elevated, you are going to miss more than half of the people who are destined to have a heart attack.”
    
Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary cardiovascular profiling systems for medical applications and clinical research. These systems are marketed to physicians, other health care professionals and researchers by a direct sales force and via distributors throughout the world. In addition to providing blood pressure values, the systems non-invasively detect subtle changes in the compliance or elasticity of both large and small arteries which is a unique feature of HDI’s technology.
Forward-looking statements in this press release are made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company wishes to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements and to recognize that the statements are not a prediction of actual future results. Actual results could differ materially from those presented and anticipated in the forward-looking statements due to the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company’s 2001 Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, under the caption “Risk Factors,” as well as others not now anticipated.

CVProfilor is a registered trademark of Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc.
  
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