RINGTIMES BALI – Hypertension, is one of the most influencing risk factors for the incidence of heart and blood vessel disease. Often, those who suffer do not show symptoms, and only realize it has caused organ disorders such as heart failure or stroke.
Maybe some don’t know what hypertension or high blood pressure is, this disease is a condition in which systolic blood pressure is ≥ 140 mmHg and or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg.
The Silent Killer
Hypertension is often called “the silent killer“Because there are often no complaints, so the sufferer does not know that he has high blood pressure, but later finds that he already has a complicating disease or complications from this disease.
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The results of the 2013 Riskesdas and studies at the Puskesmas show that only a third of sufferers of this disease, around 36.8% were diagnosed by health personnel and only 0.7% were taking medication.
It seems that the prevalence of blood pressure in Indonesia is quite high, the result is of course a public health problem and immediately received attention from the Directorate of Non-communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) RI.
Not infrequently hypertension found accidentally during a routine health check or came up with another complaint. The results of the 2007 Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) show that most of these cases in the community have not been diagnosed.
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This can be seen from the results of blood pressure measurements at age youngsters The prevalence of 18 years and over is found in Indonesia of 31.7%, where only 7.2% of the population knows that they have high blood pressure and only 0.4% of cases are taking drugs for this disease.
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