Number Of People With High Blood Pressure Has Doubled Globally, Large Study Finds

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By Maggie Fox, CNNAugust 24, 2021 astatine 9:42 pm

(CNN) — A elephantine planetary survey finds the fig of radical implicit 30 with precocious humor unit has doubled implicit the past 30 years, and much than fractional of them are not being treated for it.

That’s adjacent though galore inexpensive and casual treatments beryllium — from healthier fare and workout to pills that safely little humor unit utilizing a assortment of mechanisms.

It’s besides casual to measure, but galore radical are evidently not getting adjacent this basal level of attraction successful affluent and mediocre countries alike, the survey published successful the Lancet aesculapian diary finds. The result: 8.5 cardinal deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization. High humor unit causes stroke, bosom nonaccomplishment and nonaccomplishment of different organs specified arsenic the kidneys.

“We utilized information from 1990 to 2019 connected radical aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of humor unit and information connected humor unit treatment,” the planetary team, led by Majid Ezzati, a planetary wellness specializer astatine Imperial College London, wrote.

“We defined hypertension arsenic having systolic humor unit (the apical fig of a humor unit reading) 140 mm Hg oregon greater, diastolic humor unit (the bottommost fig of a reading) 90 mm Hg oregon greater, oregon taking medicine for hypertension.”

The researchers looked astatine information covering 184 countries. The fig of radical with precocious humor unit doubled from 648 cardinal successful 1990 to astir 1.3 cardinal by 2019, they found.

“Policies that alteration radical successful the poorest countries to entree healthier foods—particularly reducing brackish intake and making effect and vegetables much affordable and accessible—alongside improving detection by expanding cosmopolitan wellness sum and superior care, and ensuring uninterrupted entree to effectual drugs, indispensable beryllium financed and implemented to dilatory the increasing epidemic of precocious humor unit successful low- and middle-income countries,” Ezzati said successful a statement.

Many high-income countries, including Canada, Switzerland, the UK and Spain reported their numbers of radical with hypertension astatine all-time lows, but low- and middle-income countries specified arsenic Paraguay and cardinal European countries including Hungary, Poland, and Croatia had precocious rates. Canada and Peru had the lowest rates of precocious humor pressure. “Hypertension prevalence was highest passim cardinal and eastbound Europe, cardinal Asia, Oceania, confederate Africa, and immoderate countries successful Latin America and the Caribbean,” the squad wrote.

Overall, conscionable nether a 3rd of men and women globally ages 30 to 79 had precocious humor pressure, the survey found.

“The pandemic of cardiovascular illness has received little attraction successful the past 18 months but reflects concerning worldwide trends successful unhealthy manner choices specified arsenic precocious fat, sugar, brackish and intoxicant intake, sedentary lifestyles with avoidance of exercise, and smoking, each of which pb to higher humor unit and atrocious cholesterin levels that origin harm to the humor vessels that proviso the bosom and brain,” said Robert Storey, a prof of cardiology astatine the University of Sheffield who was not progressive successful the study.

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