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World Health Organization sounds the alarm about high blood pressure

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World Health Organization sounds the alarm about high blood pressure FILE PHOTO: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - The World Health Organization logo (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images/Getty Images)

The World Health Organization is sounding a global warning about high blood pressure.

Hypertension is a leading cause of heart attack, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and dementia.

It kills ten million people a year, yet it’s totally preventable.

The who says 1.4B people are living with hypertension yet close to four out of five of them aren’t controlling it through either medication or lifestyle changes.



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