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Blood pressure: Global threat on the rise!

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There are about 1 billion people, grappling with high blood pressure and this figure is likely to touch over half a billion mark by 2025. This supposition somewhere seems to be vindicating the warning wielded by the US experts in the year 2005, according to which high blood pressure is set to soar. How horrific the situation could turn out, if this supposition turns out to be true, could be estimated from the fact according to which already number of patients with high blood pressure or hypertension is increasing like swarms of flies.

This worldwide swelling tide of high blood pressure, confirms the fact that in the coming days the world is going to see a whopping increase in the number of people turning susceptible to many deadly health problems like stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure, as they are inexorably linked to high blood pressure. These calculations sound quite grimmer while we come across the fact that around 7.1 million people die of high blood pressure. In addition, research indicates that 62 per cent of strokes and 49 per cent of heart attacks are caused only due to high blood pressure. If we look at these figures in the light of the supposition expressed through the latest analysis of the global impact of high blood pressure then we can’t deny the fact that this death toll is likely to soar higher and higher, if hard measures are not taken to curb this tendency.

However, what makes findings of this analysis more disgusting is the fact that this health problem (of high blood pressure), which was once considered problem of affluent people only, has now astonishingly crept into the lives of poor people too, as the latest analysis itself confirms that this rise in the number of people with high blood pressure has been registered not only in the developed countries but also in many poor countries of Africa and Asia. For instance, in India, one in three urban adults has high blood pressure; however, its prevalence in rural areas is still quite rare. And it sounds quite shocking when the report itself states that the biggest jump of high blood pressure is expected in developing countries and nations that are fast moving to western-style economies.

Actually, many European as well as American countries were already wriggling under the threat of high blood pressure but in the developing countries, rapid industrialization, craze for western lifestyle, lack of physical workout are some of the key factors behind giving rise to health problems like obesity, depression, which ultimately pave way for hypertension or high blood pressure. Another factor that adds to this problem is that a big percentage of people, suffering from hypertension ignore the importance of proper medication, thus the situation grows from worse to worst. Normally it has been found that when it comes to reluctance towards the use of drugs, meant to cure hypertension then no country is left behind as in developed countries like US too people often don’t pass through complete treatment, so what situation prevails in developing countries, could be assessed easily. Giving similar views Dr. Sidney Smith of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who advises the World Heart Federation says:

Even in the U.S., the majority of people with high blood pressure are not treated adequately. Look at China, look at Africa, go around the world. It is a major risk factor.

Therefore, in order to curb this growing problem called high blood pressure, we shall have to focus on two points. First, on promoting healthy lifestyle among people and second on making people realize the importance of proper medication to fight hypertension.

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