When was the last time you were checked for high blood pressure? Cases have more than doubled in the past 30 years and half go untreated, study shows

The number of people living with high blood pressure – about 1.3 billion globally – has more than doubled since 1990, according to a major study published this week. About half of all sufferers went untreated in 2019.Also called hypertension, it is a silent killer often driven by obesity, is directly linked to more than 8.5 million deaths each year, and is the leading risk factor for stroke, heart, liver and kidney disease.To find out how rates of hypertension have developed globally over the…

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