Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Those Who Are Not Taking Medication For High Blood Preasure Are On Increase


According to a National Survey Carried out by the Non Infectious Diseases Control Unit Of the Ministry Of Health 20.1 Percent of Sri Lankans who are Suffering from High Blood Preasure are not taking any Medication for the Disease and they are at Risk of Getting a Stroke in the future.Out of this number 16.1 Percent are having Systolic Blood Preasure Rate more than 140 and 4 Percent are having Preasure Rate more than 160.Among those who are Curently Not taking any Medication for the Blood Preasure 22.6 Percent are Men and 17.6 Percent are Women According to the Findings of the Survey.

1 comment:

humanobserver said...

I don't understand why they are not taking medicines to prevent this dreadful disease? Pity....

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