Hypertension or high blood pressure is a long standing disease affecting middle aged to elderly people. It doubles the risk of having other Heart Diseases , Renal Failure and Peripheral Arterial Disease . Large proportion of people suffering from high blood pressure remain untreated. About 1 billion people today suffer from hypertension & by 2025, it is estimated every 1 in 4 people will be suffering from it. Approximately 8 million people die annually due to hypertension. According to Pubmed , " Blood pressure (BP) is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through your body ." It varies according to the state of heart, contracting or relaxing, hence it is recorded in form of 2 measurements known as systolic, when the heart is contracting and diastolic when its relaxing. Normal blood pressure is 120 systolic, 80 diastolic written as 120/80.
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