“I find myself checking my blood pressure more post-stroke than I did before my stroke, because I do often ask myself: ‘Have you ever had high blood pressure?’ But it was just never monitored.”

Sybil Jones, stroke survivor and member of the SMARTSHAPE Patient Experience Panel, shares her story on her rare cause of stroke. Even though her stroke was not caused by hypertension directly, she emphasizes how blood pressure monitoring is still crucial.