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Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every three adults globally.
That figure has doubled since 1990. It’s now up to 1.3 billion people. High blood pressure might sound like a disease of rich nations, but in a report released today during the United Nations General Assembly, the WHO said that three-fourths of people living with hypertension reside in low- and middle-income nations.
Nearly half of them have no idea they have the condition, which causes heart attacks, kidney disease, and stroke. Four-fifths of them, including both people with a diagnosis and those who don’t know they are affected, aren’t getting adequate treatment to control it.…Story continues...
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Source: High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It | WIRED
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