Do you know that many of the common diseases like high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, heart and liver diseases can be cured?
From the statistics Global Health Observatory (GHO), globally the overall prevalence of raised blood pressure in adults aged 25 and over was around 40% in 2008. The proportion of the world’s population with high blood pressure, or uncontrolled hypertension, fell modestly between 1980 and 2008. However, because of population growth and ageing, the number of people with uncontrolled hypertension rose from 600 million in 1980 to nearly 1 billion in 2008. The recent World health statistics 2012 report also showed the growing problem of the non-communicable diseases burden. One in three adults worldwide, according to the report, has raised blood pressure – a condition that causes around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease. One in 10 adults has diabetes.