Middle-aged people suffer from cardiovascular diseases
Hyderabad :One out of three adults in India in the age group of, 35 to 40 years, suffers from hypertension. The current statistics show that 30 per cent of middle-aged people suffer from cardiovascular diseases increasing the risk of heart attacks as observed on May 17, which is the World Hypertension Day.
The World Health Organisation has already warned that 7.2 per cent of women in the world suffer from hypertension. The reason WHO wants to concentrate on women is because at times, cardiologists do not take chest-pain complaints among women as seriously as they do as in the case of men. C. Venkata S. Ram, expert at the Apollo Institute for Blood Pressure Management, says, “The bias exists because women were always thought to be free of blood pressure problems. But this is incorrect. Earlier, they were never diagnosed hence, there is no proper history in medical records of the prevalence of the disease among women. What we are seeing now is that they are equally susceptible and need to be properly treated.”
A few deft changes and keeping physically fit and active acn go a long way in keeping blood pressure problems at bay.
( Source : dc )
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