A 2020 study published in The Lancet found high blood pressure is “the single most important risk factor for early death,” the WHO report says. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, leads to an estimated 10 million deaths every year, but almost half of adults with high blood pressure don’t know they have it.
On Sept. 19, the WHO published the organization’s first-ever report on hypertension and the consequences of high blood pressure when left untreated. “For more than half a century, treatment of high blood pressure has been standard of care in higher income countries,” Frieden said. “It’s way past time for it to become the standard of care for every person in the world.”Hypertension occurs when the pressure in a person’s blood vessels is too high. The higher the blood pressure, the harder the heart needs to work to pump blood through the body and the greater the potential for damage to the cardiovascular system.
Heart attacks and strokes are “today’s leading killers,” Frieden said. And “it costs pennies a day” for medicine to treat high blood pressure.
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