Experts warn of alarming reason you need to treat high blood pressure

Experts warn many people from around the world are dying from heart attacks and strokes because of high blood pressure.

Faliure to treat the condition is causing unnecessary deaths, the Daily Mail reported.

According to the British Heart Foundation, 115,000 cases could be prevented in the UK if people are diagnosed and given proper treatment.

Millions of people are suffering high blood pressure and don't even know it.

'This could result in a resurgence of heart attacks and strokes, reversing the gains of recent years,' the report stated.

"Unless we change our approach, thousands of lives could be lost," Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.