Global gaps in high blood pressure knowledge, treatment

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It’s the leading contributor to deaths worldwide yet most people with high blood pressure don’t know they have the condition and even for those who do, treatment is mostly ineffective, according to a large new study. Researchers examined more than 140,000 adults in 17 countries and found that about 41 percent had consistently high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, but fewer than half of those people knew it. …