Occupation – One of the Main Causative Factors for Hypertension

摘要

Despite health education and extensive advances in drug development, hypertension has become a global burden and has reached epidemic proportions. Hypertension is a silent and invisible killer accounting for significant mortality and morbidity universally. As per the World Health Statistics 2012, of the estimated 57 million global deaths in 2008, 63% were due to non communicable disease (NCD). The largest cause of NCD deaths is cardiovascular disease, accounting for almost 17 million (48%) deaths, nearly one-third of the total. Of these, complications of “Raised Blood Pressure” accounts for nearly 9.4 million deaths worldwide every year. More than a quarter of world’s population of one billion people are affected by high blood pressure in 2000 which can probably increase to 30% by 2025.1