Every year, May 17 is designated to World Hypertension Day (WHD).
The WHD's main aim: The WHD's primary goal: The WHD's primary goal:
- At least once a year, the common public should be urged to get a regular checkup of their blood pressure
- To encourage the people with hypertension on a global basis, go to their health specialist for a regular checkup and appropriate treatment
- To help all the common people, especially youth and young people, maintain their normal weight, normal blood pressure, healthy eating, regular physical fitness, and others.
- To encourage people to quit unhealthy habits such as alcohol, lazy routine, oily and fatty diet, fried and spicy diet, smoking, obese, overweight, and others, etc
Hypertension is a result of elevated blood pressure. The force of blood flowing through your blood vessels is always too high. Hypertension is often described as the "silent killer" because it has no signs and can go unnoticed and untreated for years.
- Nearly four out of every ten adults over the age of 25 have hypertension, and in several countries, another 1 in 5 adults have pre-hypertension
- Hypertension is a condition that affects 9/10 adults over 80 years of age
- One half of blood pressure related disease is found in people with elevated blood pressure levels that are not normal
These are the figures to watch if you have had your blood pressure checked. These are the numbers to watch if you have had your blood pressure tested.
- Normal: Under 120/80
- Prehypertension: 120/80 to 139/89: 120/80 to 139/89
- Hypertension Stage 1: 140/90 to 159/99: 140/90 to 159/99. Hypertension Stage 1: 140/90 to 159/99
- Hypertension Stage 2: 160/100 or higher is the highest level of hypertension. Stage 2: 160/100 or higher
- Hypertension Crisis in the United States: Over 180/110 is above 180/110
How to observe
Get your blood pressure checked. Get your blood pressure checked. Some drug stores have do-it-yourself testing stations.
Learn more at the International Society of Hypertension website. Learn more at the International Society of Hypertension website.
To combat hypertension, you should exercise more and eat healthier.
History
The World Hypertension League (WHL), a member of the International Society of Hypertension, is a member of the International Society of Hypertension, Inc. (WHL). The day to raise the common public's concern of hypertension is WHL.. In 2005, the organization first launched the campaign of World Hypertension Day on May 14 in 2005, but it shifted to May 17 in 2006.
