In most populations, more than 40% of adults aged 25 and over suffer from high blood pressure, a disease which, if left untreated, has unparalleled potential to kill and disable, inflict enormous suffering and significantly undermine quality of life.
Millions of people across the world – a majority of them poor – needlessly suffer from the crippling consequences of untreated high blood pressure, such as stroke, kidney failure, heart disease and blindness. For a disease of its magnitude, the lack of proper attention it deserves is beyond reason.
Scant efforts to promote population-wide high blood pressure screening by health workers, exclusion of blood pressure lowering medicines from a country’s essential medicines lists, industry inattention to the production of low-cost generic versions and neglect of dietary salt reduction are among some of the missed opportunities to tackle a problem of unprecedented scale with equally unparalleled cost-effective solutions.
See full Article: http://forumblog.org/2013/04/lets-stop-ignoring-this-needless-suffering/
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