Some Revealing Hypertension Statistics

Hypertension statistics can certainly reveal a lot of new things regarding about what is high blood pressure and how it affects the general population, and an example of such statistics is the fact that:

• 16 % of new cases of end-stage renal disease in Australia were actually caused because of having hypertension.

• More than 90,000 Americans were undergoing treatment for ESRD, that in turn was attributable to having hypertension.

To really understand what the risk factors are, it is a good idea to look at the following and know that:

• the physical inactivity helps increase the risk of suffering from hypertension by about thirty percent, according to one fact sheet released by the World Heart Foundation for the year 2002.

Of course, that is not all the information that will be revealed because there are other figures that go on to show what the associated medical conditions are that are related to having high blood pressure. Thus, it is believed, that :

• as many as 73 % of those with a diabetes problem also have hypertension and these figures are in fact, revealed by the US National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet for the year 2003.

There is also a lot of information that is also available and you will learn by looking at available hypertension statistics like the following: 

• it is believed that as many as 50 million people living in America are suffering from high blood pressure, while the prevalence rate among these Americans was, it is believed, about 1 in 5 to 18 .

• Those who are undiagnosed with regard to prevalence of hypertension are believed to be as many as 15 million, which means that, it is believed that over 30 % percent of the 50 million affected people have yet to be diagnosed for hypertension.

Furthermore, (regarding American population), hypertension statistics reveal that :

• About 35 % of affected people are not even aware that they have a hypertension problem

•  it is also believed that 32 % of non-institutionalized adults aged twenty and above were suffering from high blood pressure

• more than 41,000 home health care patients also suffered from the condition.

There are also statistics available regarding deaths caused by hypertension and these reveal that,

• More than 16,000 people die from high blood pressure each year,

• More than 1,000 people died each month due only to having a high blood pressure related problem.

These and other hypertension statistics certainly should awaken you to the growing menace of this condition and it should also wake you up to the fact that you need to something quickly about leading a life that is more conducive to living a stress-free lifestyle, and begin to do those changes today.