Researchers from New Zealand have found that almost 80% deaths due to hypertension happen in the developing countries of the world. These results were published in this week issue of The Lancet.

There was a time when it was considered that high blood pressure is usually found only among the rich people of the world but now high blood pressure has become a worldwide problem and affecting rich as well as poor. These are some findings of that research.

The researcher found that in 2001, among people above 30 years of age, there were around 7.6 million untimely deaths, 92 million disabilities that is respectively 13.5% and 6% of the total global deaths.

It doesn’t end here as almost 47% cases of heart disease and 54% of strokes have been also related to hypertension. More than half these cases occurred in those people who had more than 140mm Hg systolic while other cases happened with those who had a lesser degree of hypertension.

In rich countries this ratio of untimely deaths was almost 17.6% and 12.9% in average and lower income countries. Similarly, the ratio of DALYS because of high blood pressure was 9.3% and 5.6% in average and lower income companies.

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