Number of people living with hypertension has doubled worldwide over past 30 years to more than 1.2 billion

Over the past 30 years, the number of adults (aged 30-79 years) living with hypertension worldwide has doubled—rising from an estimated 331 million women and 317 million men in 1990, to 626 million women and 652 million men in 2019, with most of this increase occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The international study, published in The Lancet, analyzed blood pressure measurements from more than 100 million people taken over three decades in 184 countries.

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