Hypertension, Related Mortality Rising Globally
Elevated SBP: the 'leading global contributor to preventable death'
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by Nicole Lou
Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
January 10, 2017
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Elevated blood pressure is on the rise around the world, with an increasing impact on mortality, according to a large international study.
Individuals with systolic blood pressures above 110 mm Hg grew in ranks from 73,119 for every 100,000 people in 1990 to 81,373 per 100,000 in 2015. At the same time, it became more common for people to have systolic blood pressures over 140 mm Hg (17,307 for every 100,000 people in 1990 versus 20,526 in 2015), according to Christopher J.L. Murray, DPhil, of University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, and colleagues.
Deaths were on the rise too, regardless of whether patients had a systolic blood pressure surpassing 110 mm Hg (135.6 versus 145.2) or 140 mm Hg (97.9 to 106.3), the authors noted. Their study appeared online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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