World hypertension day : 17th May 2022

    18-May-2022
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Dr Kshetrimayum Kala Singh
“Measure your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control it, Live longer”. Hypertension is a silent killer
Contd from previous issue
h) Age-High blood pressure is common in older age group.
Whereas causes of secondary hypertension are kidney disease, adrenal gland over activity, sleep apnea syndrome, tumours, recreational drugs, thyroid gland dysfunction, aortic coarctation, pregnancy-related conditions, alcoholic drinks, and bad food etc..
Prevalence : One in three adults worldwide has high blood pressure. The proportion increases with age from 1 in 10 people in their 20s & 30s to 5 in 10 people in their 50s. 70 million Americans and 2 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure. The global burden of hypertension is rising and projected to affect 2.5 billion persons, one third of the world's population by the year 2025. In India, it was reported on 1995 from Jaipur, the incidence of hypertension was 30% in male and 33% in female. Again in 1999 the incidence at Mumbai was 44% in male and 45% in female. In Manipur there is no clear cut study report but many hypertensive patients are brought to the hospitals with severe complications.
Signs and symptoms
High blood pressure is called the silent killer because it often does not produce any signs or symptoms to some patients. Patient may have headache, dizziness or nose bleeding, palpitation, muscle cramps, giddiness, burning of eyes, distended neck veins, insomnia, neck pain & vertigo. But some patients have high blood pressure for years without even knowing it. Sign and symptoms typically don't occur until high blood pressure has advanced to a higher possibility of life threatening stage.
Hazards of High Blood Pressure
In patients of high blood pressure the blood vessels are thickened, hard and brittle. This disorder is termed atherosclerosis. Hear attack, heart failure, kidney failure, aneurysm, cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) and retinal hemorrhage are the natural consequences of high blood pressure. Also it shortens the life and drags its victim to a premature death. Due to its serious complications on the brain and heart it was named as the number one killer by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2002.
Objectives of Celebrating World Hard Hypertension Days.
*To motivate the common public for regular checkup of their blood pressure.
*To encourage the people having hypertension on global basis to go to their health practitioner for regular checkup and proper tretment.
*To promote all the common public especially youth and young people to maintain their living normal weight, normal cholesterol level, normal blood pressure, healthy living, healthy eating, no taking salt in excess, taking more fruits & vegetables, regular physical exercise and etc.
*To encourage people to leave their bad habits like drinking alcohol, lazy routine, oily and fatty diet, fried and spicy diet, smoking, obesity, overweight and etc.
*To motivate the people for regular checkup of their health and blood pressure by providing them an environment through free blood pressure checkup camp.
*To make common public aware about blood pressure, high blood pressure, its complications, how to maintain normal blood pressure, weight and healthy life style.
*To encourage all the medical professionals for providing proper treatment and regular checkup to their patient.
*To bring a revolution among common public for maintaining the healthy life style and healthy habits for whole life.
* To setup more hospitals and health centers in the vulnerable areas for the ease of common public.
*To promote early detection, prevention and control of the arterial hypertension in the vulnerable populations.
“Prevention is better than cure” is especially true for high blood pressure. Secondary hypertension is severe condition which can be managed and cared if treated well. The ultimate goal of World Hypertension Day observation is to give awareness of the consequences of Hypertension to the general population, so that we can prevent heart attack, heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, retinal haemorrhagis and atherosclerosis.
The success of world hypertension day is due to the enthusiasn and voluntary action of multiple stakeholders from every member country.
The writer is president, The Manipur Heart Care Society Imphal
-LOVE YOUR HEART, HEART IS YOUR LIFE