Hypertension is increasingly affecting teenagers and young adults in India because of rising stress, obesity, poor sleep and unhealthy lifestyles, silently damaging the brain, heart and kidneys long before symptoms appear, doctors and
#public #healthexperts warned on Thursday ahead of
#WorldHypertensionDay on May 17. Speaking at the ‘Illness to Wellness Conference on Transforming Hypertension Care: Prevention to Wellness’, experts said many patients discover high blood pressure only after suffering a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure because the disease often remains symptomless for years.
Calling hypertension a “
#silentkiller”, Union minister of state for health and family welfare Prataprao Jadhav said changing lifestyles and neglect of physical and mental health were contributing to rising hypertension among younger people.
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