BLOOD PRESSURE PREVALENCE IN KARACHI: High blood pressure (BP) is one of the leading risk factors for global disease burden, accounting for 17% of all deaths worldwide . The approximate number of adults with elevated BP has increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1.13 billion in 2015, 258 million of whom were living in South Asian countries . The number of affected individuals is predicted to increase to a total 1.56 billion globally by 2025 . Hypertension, a silent killer, is responsible for at least 45% of all deaths due to heart disease and 51% of deaths due to stroke; Recently Dow University doctors have published a study on blood pressure screening in Karachi carried out on about 2000 people in the Gulshan area. Results are interesting. Here is the study:
Prevalence and Predictors of Blood Pressure Screening in Karachi: A Cross-sectional Study
Marium Mehmood, Aleena Mesiah, Fizza Z. Raza, Zainab Junaid , Munira Jamali, Jabeen Zehra, Syeda A. Johar, Mahin Fatima, Hooria Imran, Fabeha Zafar, Darab Shaban, Fahad Amin, Duaa Rao, Faryal Khan, Emaan Amin , Naveen Tariq, Kaneez Fatima Ahmad
Mehmood M, Mesiah A, Raza F Z, et al. (July 11, 2018) Prevalence and Predictors of Blood Pressure Screening in Karachi: A Cross-sectional Study. Cureus 10(7): e2967. doi:10.7759/cureus.2967
