Prevalence of Hypertension and Risk Factors
Journal Title: Public Health Open Access - Year 2020, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Hypertension is a major chronic life style disease and important public health problem worldwide. Hypertension as rule defined by the existence of a chronic altitude of systemic arterial pressure above a certain sill value. However, rising evidence indicates that the cardiovascular (CV) risk associated with elevation of blood pressure (BP) above approximately 115/75mmHg increases in a log-linear fashion. A recent review indicates that nearly one billion adults had hypertension in 2000 and this is predicted to increase to 1.56billion by 2025. The review previous studies were method to take out of recently study. The aim of review article to showing of both classification aspects of hypertension, blood pressure measurement, treatment of hypertension, hypertension in specific circumstances, hypertension and disease and blood pressure relationship with risk factor. In conclusion knowledge and awareness regarding the health consequences of lifestyle changes are generally expected to be high among clinicians. This in turn could influence the prevalence of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension among them.
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Haroon AT and Mohammed AA
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