One out of every three Indian is suffering from Hypertension and to deal with it, campaign is organised every year by World Hypertension League on World Hypertension Day on May 17, said Dr. PC Manoria while speaking with the media persons on Wednesday.
The slogan for this year is ‘Know your numbers’ which means measures your blood pressure in terms of number and spread the awareness.
In India, 3 out of every 10 adults suffer from ‘Hypertension’. The figure for the rural and urban doesn’t differ much. The Urban population is around 30 percent which suffers from Hypertension while rural population is around 25 percent which suffered from Hypertension.
High blood pressure is very easy to identify, which can be done only by measuring blood pressure and its treatment is not expensive but most people do not take blood pressure medicines regularly because symptoms do not surface for many years of this disease.
In urban areas, blood pressure of only 20 percent of the people is under control whereas in rural areas it is 10 percent.
Dr. Pankaj Manoria said that every person should take care of his heart by decreasing risk factor such as smoking, cholesterol, Blood Pressure.
He said that high blood pressure targets the heart, brain and kidney, which leads to heart attack, kidney disease and kidney disease.
Blood pressure disease does not cause any symptoms in the body, its address can only be detected by measuring blood pressure, hence the hypertension is a silent killer.