Geneva - Sana
The World Health Organization announced that more than a billion people around the world suffer from high blood pressure, noting that it is the main cause of cardiovascular disease and premature death worldwide.
The organization stated in a statement on its official website today that two-thirds of the cases of high blood pressure are concentrated in low and middle-income countries due to the increased risk factors of this population in recent decades, and about half of those with high blood pressure do not know their injury, which exposes them to the risk of medical complications and early death. That one person out of every four men and one out of five women has high blood pressure, which is also called hypertension, which is a chronic disease in which the blood pressure in the arteries is high, which requires the heart to work harder in order to be able to push blood into the blood vessels and count This disease is a major risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction, and chronic kidney disease.