High blood pressure is a common condition in which the force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart disease.

Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. The more blood your heart pumps and the narrower your arteries, the higher your blood pressure.

You can have high blood pressure (hypertension) for years without any symptoms. Even without symptoms, damage to blood vessels and your heart continues and can be detected. Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases your risk of serious health problems, including heart attack and stroke.

High blood pressure generally develops over many years, and it affects nearly everyone eventually. Fortunately, high blood pressure can be easily detected. And once you know you have high blood pressure, you can work with your doctor to control it or naturally cure it.
The team of medical experts assembled by Pfizer Nigeria and East Africa Region (NEAR) estimates that about 40 per cent of some Nigerian populations are hypertensive with blood pressure of more than 140/80 mmHg.

The medical experts said the prevalence of hypertension in Nigeria has moved up from national average of 11 per cent in 1997 to 40 per cent in 2012. A breakdown showed that the prevalence of hypertension is about 27 per cent in Katsina, 36.6 per cent in Ilorin, 20.8 per cent in Ibadan rural, 46.6 per cent in Enugu rural.

The experts, last week, at the 7th edition of the Cardiovascular Summit organised by Pfizer NEAR associated the high prevalence of hypertension in Enugu to the high salt content of the food base.

The medical experts assertion was supported by a study published in World Journal of Cardiology titled “Blood pressure, prevalence of hypertension and hypertension related complications in Nigerian Africans: A review.”

The report reads: “The overall prevalence of hypertension in Nigeria ranges from eight per cent to 46.4 per cent depending on the study target population, type of measurement and cut-off value used for defining hypertension. The prevalence is similar in men and women (7.9 per cent to 50.2 per cent vs 3.5 per cent to 68.8 per cent, respectively) and in the urban (8.1 per cent to 42.0 per cent) and rural setting (13.5 per cent to 46.4 per cent). The pooled prevalence increased from 8.6 per cent from the only study during the period from 1970 to 1979 to 22.5 per cent (2000 to 2011).

“Awareness, treatment and control of hypertension were generally low with attendant high burden of hypertension related complications. In order to improve outcomes of cardiovascular disease in Africans, public health education to improve awareness of hypertension is required.”

The Pfizer NEAR team of experts said the rising cases of hypertension have led to the increase in stroke, heart attack and kidney failure in the country.

The World Journal of Cardiology study also concluded: “Hypertension in Nigeria today is the commonest risk factor for stroke, heart failure, ischemic heart disease and chronic kidney disease.”

They said that hypertension is a time bomb waiting to go off and so Nigerians we have to start doing something.

According to a study published in Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, hypertension and other non-communicable diseases are currently responsible for at least 20 per cent of all deaths in Nigeria, and constitute up to 60 per cent of the patients admitted into the medical wards of most tertiary hospitals in Nigeria.

The study is titled “The prevalence of hypertension and its modifiable risk factors among lecturers of a medical school in Port Harcourt, south-south Nigeria: Implications for control effort.”

The experts assembled by Pfizer NEAR are, however, divided over optimal blood pressure with some saying not more than 140/80 mmHg, 150/90 mmHg, 140/85 mmHg, and 140/90 mmHg and even 120/80mmHg, among others.
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