Rising blood pressures all across the planet

In a recent impact on the global numbers of high blood pressure patients, the figures were quite startling: one billion worldwide have high blood pressure and an additional half that amount will welcome high blood pressure into their lives by 2025.

Does that not strike you as rather high? It did me! In parts of the western world along with even parts of Africa, higher blood pressures are mounting, which is leading to record amounts of heart disease as a result.

It's amazing that a silent killer like high blood pressure is escaping attention unlike many other ailments and conditions these days. I wonder why?