About 1.13 billion people are suffering from high blood pressure on a global scale since 2015. A new study shows that most of these people belong to the low and the middle class.
In an article published by CNN, high blood pressure is becoming a global issue that individuals who are now affected by it have gone up over the past four decades. This particular study also showed that men are the ones often affected than women.
The Lancet published the original findings of this study stating that countries in South Asia and Africa have a skyrocketing population of people with high blood pressure, particularly those who have low and middle income. The head of this study, Maji Ezzati, said that the issue with high blood pressure is more of a poverty matter and not affluence. The income of people linked to it is the basis of her statement. It is interesting to see that most individuals who have high blood pressure are found in Asia. Meanwhile, people in the United States, Canada, and even Europe are less likely to worry about it.
This research was done in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other scientists from around the world who have data about high blood pressure from 1975 to 2015. Ezzati is convinced that high blood pressure is something that a lot of people have neglected, which is why it is just now that it has become a global issue. People were too focused on the whole issue of obesity and diabetes that they forget about high blood pressure.
In case you are not aware, about 7.5 million die from high blood pressure, which is 13% of the total of fatalities that the human race get every year. This is certainly a wake-up call, and it is about time that you watch your diet and your lifestyle.
