Jul 06 2008
Four-Fifths Of High Blood Pressure Related Deaths Occur In Developing World
Long thought to be a problem only for high income countries, now 80% of deaths connected to high blood pressure (HBP) occur in the developing world. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article in this week’s edition of The Lancet.
Cardiovascular disease is now endemic worldwide and no longer limited to economically developed countries. Few studies have assessed the extent and distribution of the blood-pressure burden world wide, so Dr Carlene Lawes, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Professor Anthony Rodgers, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues on behalf of the International Society of Hypertension have addressed this in this study. They estimated the worldwide burden of disease attributable to HBP (?