If you have hypertension, you are certainly not alone. You have quite a large number of companions, not in lakhs or millions, but in billions. According to 2017 statistics, 1.1 billion people suffer from hypertension or high blood pressure. As a gender, men are more prone to the danger of high blood pressure than women. Men are also more prone to heart problems than women. God bless men! And please, please do something about women, as they're responsible for more than half of our heartaches!
In 90% patients there is no known cause for hypertension, so no wonder your doctor is at sea while treating you. When there is no cause, how can he find the cure. This is why your hypertension pill becomes your lifelong companion. Your doctor doesn't know the cause, you don't know the cause, so you keep on taking the pill. If you don't know the cause, how will you know that the cause is removed and your BP tablet has become unnecessary. Don't blame your doctor; he or she is trying to help prolong your life. Be properly grateful, but don't expect him to say words to this effect, 'Now no need to take your BP pills.' Welcome to the world of high blood pressure! What is more, high blood pressure does not have visible symptoms, hence the nickname 'the silent killer.'
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), high blood pressure causes 7.5 million deaths, about 12.8% of the total of all deaths worldwide. In 2016, hypertension killed 1.6 million people in India – more than the population of Mauritius and double the population of Bhutan, according to the Global Burden of Disease data. Oops! And my goodness, one-third of these people didn't even know that they had hypertension and they were going to succumb to it. Their ignorance may have been bliss for the time being, but in the end they paid the price with their life.
Socrates said, 'Know thyself!' I say, 'Know your blood pressure!' Don't wait for the annual visit to the doctor for the measurement. Go buy a blood pressure monitor and keep checking your BP at home regularly. The sooner you detect it, controlling it would be that much easier.
All these facts and figures warn us of one thing: Get rid of High Blood Pressure, before it gets rid of you.
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