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This year's World Health Day, celebrated next Sunday, is focused on hypertension. This is a global public health issue: cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally. They account for approximately 17 million deaths in the world each year.
Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day. This year's theme is controlling high blood pressure, a condition which affects more than one in three adults worldwide. For millions of people, high blood pressure will lead to fatal heart attacks, debilitating strokes, and chronic heart and kidney disease. However, high blood pressure is both preventable and treatable. Therefore, increasing public awareness is crucial, as is access to early detection.
The risk of developing high blood pressure can be minimized by: cutting down on salt; eating a balanced diet; avoiding harmful use of alcohol; getting regular exercise; and avoiding tobacco use. WHO Director General, Dr Margaret Chan, gave the example by getting her blood pressure measured.
WHO also launched the Global brief on hypertension: silent killer, global public health crisis which describes how hypertension contributes to the burden of heart disease, premature death and disability, and explains how hypertension is both preventable and treatable "and how governments, health workers, civil society, the private sector, families and individuals can join forces to reduce hypertension and its impact." What about you? Do you know your blood pressure?
Read more: Global brief on hypertension: silent killer, global public health crisis
The risk of developing high blood pressure can be minimized by: cutting down on salt; eating a balanced diet; avoiding harmful use of alcohol; getting regular exercise; and avoiding tobacco use. WHO Director General, Dr Margaret Chan, gave the example by getting her blood pressure measured.
WHO also launched the Global brief on hypertension: silent killer, global public health crisis which describes how hypertension contributes to the burden of heart disease, premature death and disability, and explains how hypertension is both preventable and treatable "and how governments, health workers, civil society, the private sector, families and individuals can join forces to reduce hypertension and its impact." What about you? Do you know your blood pressure?
Read more: Global brief on hypertension: silent killer, global public health crisis
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