{"id":7044,"date":"2022-11-29T02:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:09:03","slug":"hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hypertension:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The study reinforces uncontrolled BP as a significant contributor to mortality.<\/li>\n<li>It follows the Centre\u2019s 2019-20 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) that reported a hypertension prevalence of 24% in men and 21% in women, an increase from 19% and 17% over the 2015-16 survey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patients with readings of systolic &lt;140 mmHg and diastolic &lt;90 mmHg are defined as those with hypertension under control.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hypertension control rate is defined as the proportion of patients with BP under control (systolic &lt;140 mmHg and diastolic &lt;90 mmHg).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia study is based on a diversified analysis of studies of BP control rates between 2001 and 2022 in India.<\/li>\n<li>Despite government efforts, awareness and better access to healthcare facilities, the number of patients able to control hypertension has only grown from\u00a0<strong>6% to 23% in the past 21 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Lancet researchers included 51 studies involving 3. 4 lakh patients.<\/li>\n<li>Of these, 21 studies (41%) reported poorer BP control rates among males than females, and six (12%) poorer rates among rural patients.<\/li>\n<li>The combined control rate in India in 2001-20 was 18%, with significant increase over the years, reaching 23% in 2016-20.<\/li>\n<li>The study indicated significantly better control rates in the south and west, and considerably poorer rates among males.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/75-with-hypertension-in-india-have-uncontrolled-bp-lancet\/articleshow\/95811891.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypertension (High BP) is a condition in which the blood vessels have persistently raised pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}