Hypertension, one of the most common growing diseases found among young people in the world, has gripped India too as a recent survey shared by the World Health Organisation reveals it to be prevalent in 36 per cent males and 34 per cent females above the age of 25 years, mainly in their middle age.
Doctors highlight that Delhi with a highly stressful lifstyle is likely to have a percentage of hypertension patients above the national average. They underlined that the most affected group of this disease are the younsters.
“It is a major health concern and responsibility of all medical professionals to create awareness among the youngsters who lead a highly stressful life. The average of urban city is likely to be above the national average and particularly a city like Delhi will surely have one out of two or three with symtoms of hypertension. Here, everybody especially the crowd of young people and middle aged professionals work in stressful environment. They get processed food with high salt quantity which is almost consumed by all age-groups and in excessive quantity. The price rates keep them from consuming fruits and vegetables. Instead of spending on healthy nutritious diet, they end-up in fast-food outlets and bars for drinks,” said Renu Garg, the regional officer of the World Health Organisation.
She also added that due to the growing population the competition in the city increased at a rapid rate putting pressure on adults to meet the demands of social as well as personal end.
Garg highlighted that the primary need to counter this silent killer is to create awareness among public as the disease lead to increasing number of sudden deaths and heart attacks.
“The hectic routine in life is leaving the urban population clueless about the health risks they take. It is advised to all those people running around in a chaotic work atmosphere to get a check-up done if any severe headache, dizziness, insomnia, nervousness or insomnia persists. Only after the diagonosis is done by a doctor, patients must keep the blood pressure levels under check by monitoring with a portable aneroid sphygmomanometer which is the most suitable,” Garg said.