"Healthy Weight-Healthy Blood Pressure" is the theme for this year
This year World Hypertension League (WHL) has chosen "Healthy Weight-Healthy Blood Pressure" as the theme for World Hypertension Day 2010. Keeping in mind that more than 1 Billion adults worldwide are overweight and over 300 million of them are obese, the WHL intends to bring about public awareness of obesity and its effects on hypertension. As, weight has either direct or indirect effect on heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes. The objective of the World Hypertension Day is to promote the detection, control and prevention of arterial hypertension in populations. This the day for education about high blood pressure which is the biggest single cause of death worldwide through strokes, heart attacks and kidney diseases.
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