Hypertension – Common because of our Genetics and Lifestyle.
About one billion people have hypertension globally with about 2/3 of these people living in developing countries like Nigeria. In Nigeria, an estimated of 50 million people have hypertension, which is about a quarter of our total population.
The reason why we have a high prevalence of hypertension is due to our genes. Most of us will inherit the tendency to have hypertension just the same way our skin colour, height, and other traits are inherited. Blacks generally don’t handle salt well as other races. We have a tendency to retain salt, this subsequently leads to a risk of developing hypertension – this is the rationale for advocating low salt diet.
Similarly, our lifestyle contributes to the development of hypertension – high salt, smoking, excessive alcohol ingestion, lack of exercise and se;dentary lifestyle.
Other factors include age, sex and other conditions like Diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol levels are also associated with a higher risk of developing hypertension.

• Most people with hypertension don’t show any sign or symptom.
Hypertension is called a silent killer disease because it does not have specific signs and symptoms. I am sure you can guess someone has severe malaria if you see their looks, people with hypertension don’t look different from those who don’t have hypertension.

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