Health experts say that 18% of the youth over 15 years of age in Pakistan suffer from hypertension or high blood pressure. The main causes of high blood pressure in young people are sedentary lifestyle, excessive consumption of junk and processed food, avoiding exercise. , smoking and online gaming.
Health experts associated with five medical societies of Pakistan while addressing a press conference held in a local hotel under the ‘Discovering Hypertension Project’ said that on the other hand, about 46% of adults over the age of 18 are suffering from high blood pressure, Pakistan. Young and relatively young people are dying or dying from heart attacks and strokes due to blood pressure complications.
Experts said that vision impairment and kidney failure rates have also increased alarmingly as a result of high blood pressure. Required.
Discovering Hypertension, a project of local pharmaceutical company Pharma, will check the blood pressure of 1 million people across Pakistan in a year, providing facilities for blood pressure checks at 500 locations across Pakistan. Hypertension patients out of 1 million people will be provided treatment and blood pressure control facilities in 100 clinics across Pakistan.
