The number of people with hypertension around the world over the past 30 years has doubled, found out the international team of researchers. The article with the conclusions of scientists was published in The Lancet magazine.
International collaboration participants analyzed the study data 1201 in which the participants measured blood pressure. In total, these studies have covered 104 million people from 184 countries. With the help of modeling, experts managed to call the share among the global population of people whose blood pressure is higher than 140 per 90 millimeters of the mercury pillar – the cut-off at which hypertension is diagnosed.
If in 1990 there were 317 million men and 331 million women with hypertension in 1990, then in 2019 this number was 652 million and 626 million, respectively, revealed researchers. At the same time, almost half of this amount did not know about their diagnosis, and more than half were not treated from hypertension.
Despite the fact that in high-income countries, the prevalence of hypertension decreased, in the rest, it remained unchanged, researchers emphasize. The lowest share of people with hypertension was celebrated in Canada and Peru – there only one of four people was susceptible to the disease. The greatest lobes were observed in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia.