High Blood Pressure is increasing In Poor Countries
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Raised blood pressure is the leading global risk factor for cardiovascular
diseases and chronic kidney disease.1x1Cardiovascular
disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of
cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980
A study in the Lancet pooled population-based data to estimate national, regional, and global trends
from 1975 to 2015 in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and in
the prevalence of raised blood pressure, for adults aged 18 years and older in
200 countries and territories. It also estimated trends in the number of adults
with raised blood pressure, and calculated how much these trends are
attributable to changes in prevalence versus changes in population size and age
structure.
The take from the study is that during
the past four decades, the highest levels of blood pressure worldwide have
shifted from high-income countries to low-income and middle-income countries in
south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, while blood pressure has been persistently
high in central and eastern Europe.
Implications are that the global target of reducing raised blood
pressure prevalence by 25% by 2025 is unlikely to be achieved in these regions.
The number of people with raised blood pressure has risen worldwide, with the
increase happening mainly in low-income and middle-income countries.
More people than ever are developing high blood pressure according to a research from the Lancet.
- number of people with hypertension worldwide climbed from almost 600
million in 1975 to 1.1 billion last year.
-new ranks are roughly double what they were four decades ago, the world
population has also increased dramatically
— almost 15 percent of the world now has high blood pressure, representing
an increase of perhaps half of a percent from 1975.
-The majority of the increase occurred in low- and middle-income countries,
while decreases occurred in high-income countries and some middle-income
locations.
Study illuminates incidents of high blood pressure decreased significantly
in wealthier western countries like the United States, Australia and Peru, and
wealthier Asia Pacific countries like South Korea and Singapore.
- More than half of the adults with hypertension around the globe live in
eastern, southern and Southeast Asia, mostly India and China, the two most
populous countries in the world.
- Other groups with high levels of high blood pressure are one-third of men in certain central and
eastern European countries like Croatia, Latvia and Hungary,
-one-third of women with it in West African countries like Niger, Chad and
Mali.
High blood pressure rates are on the rise in poor
countries around the world.
“Taken globally, high blood pressure is no considered …..a problem of the
world’s poorest countries and people.”
Researchers keep an eye on high blood pressure because it is a key risk
factor in many medical conditions, such as heart disease and stroke. Lots of
factors contribute to high blood pressure, including genetic factors, diet and
lifestyle choices, and our environment
-It is possible to reduce the incidence of high blood pressure, based on the
downward trend in wealthier nations.
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