Hypertension

Stroke is the number one cause of disability and third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer) worldwide. Stroke provides a large health burden for the disabled and their families. Economic burden caused by stroke is also so heavy. Hypertension is a risk factor for stroke, the most important and consistent.

Hypertension is one of the major diseases in the world, at nearly 50 million people in the United States, and nearly 1 billion people around the world. The prevalence of hypertension increases, in accordance with age. Someone called the have hypertension if their blood pressure more than 140/90 mmHg, or more than 135/85 mgHg in individuals with heart failure, renal insufficiency, or diabetes mellitus. Hypertension is a risk factor for stroke and coronary heart disease is the most consistent and important. Hypertension increases the risk of stroke 2-4 times as much, not depending on other risk factors.

For over three decades, various associations of health professionals across the globe are working hard to improve prevention and better treatment for hypertension. This work involves campaigns for the public to be more careful of hypertension. High blood pressure awareness campaign is a huge problem.

This is primarily due to high blood pressure causes no symptoms/complaints. A complaint occurs when target organ damage has occurred, and if that happened we were late step in managing hypertension. Large-scale epidemiological studies have shown that the number of people with hypertension worldwide has reached 1 billion, with mortality from diseases associated with hypertension reach 7100 thousand people die each year from diseases associated with hypertension (such as stroke and heart disease).