The rates of people suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes are increasing in both developed and developing countries, warns the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the study which includes 194 countries, one in every three adults worldwide has high blood pressure or hypertension which is the biggest single risk factor for death worldwide causing heart disease, stroke and kidney disease and diabetes, Press TV reported. In addition, one in every 10 people globally is suffering from diabetes, added the world health organization report.
The findings disclosed that 29.2 percent of men and 24.8 percent of women have high blood pressure, while 9.8 percent of men and 9.2 percent of women have raised fasting blood glucose levels. The latest global health statistics also shows that 7 million people worldwide die every year because of complications caused by high blood pressure.
“This report is further evidence of the dramatic increase in the conditions that trigger heart disease and other chronic illnesses, particularly in low and middle-income countries,” said WHO director general Margaret Chan. “In some African countries, as much as half the adult population has high blood pressure.” WHO says almost 80 percent of deaths from such diseases now occur in low- and middle-income countries while widespread diagnosis and treatment had reduced blood pressure and deaths from heart disease in high-income states.
