Drawing on data from more than six million adults across 119 countries, this research highlights widening global challenges in hypertension care. The researchers found that while rates of hypertension declined slightly in wealthier countries between 2000 and 2020, they rose sharply in low- and middle-income nations, which accounted for nearly 90 percent of the global increase in cases. By 2020, around one in three adults worldwide – roughly 1.7 billion people – were living with high blood pressure, which contributes to an estimated 10 million deaths annually through conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and dementia.
Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the study reveals significant gaps in diagnosis and treatment. High blood pressure often develops without symptoms, leaving many people unaware they have it. In 2020, fewer than 20 percent of people with hypertension globally had their condition under control. Wealthier countries performed better, but even there only around 40 percent of patients achieved control, compared with just 13.6 percent in poorer countries.
To check out Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health recommendations for high blood pressure, see this page on our website.
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A new global analysis by Tulane University found that high blood pressure remains a stubborn and deadly silent epidemic whose burden on public health systems has only increased in the past 20 years, particularly in countries least equipped to address it.
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Drawing on data from more than six million adults across 119 countries, this research highlights widening global challenges in hypertension care. The researchers found that while rates of hypertension declined slightly in wealthier countries between 2000 and 2020, they rose sharply in low- and middle-income nations, which accounted for nearly 90 percent of the global increase in cases. By 2020, around one in three adults worldwide – roughly 1.7 billion people – were living with high blood pressure, which contributes to an estimated 10 million deaths annually through conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and dementia.
Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the study reveals significant gaps in diagnosis and treatment. High blood pressure often develops without symptoms, leaving many people unaware they have it. In 2020, fewer than 20 percent of people with hypertension globally had their condition under control. Wealthier countries performed better, but even there only around 40 percent of patients achieved control, compared with just 13.6 percent in poorer countries.
To check out Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health recommendations for high blood pressure, see this page on our website.
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