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Showing posts with label World Health Day 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Health Day 2013. Show all posts

Friday, 5 April 2013

World Health Day 2013 – How Controlling Your Blood Pressure Can Benefit the Environment


Source: www.wta.org
Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the World Health Day theme.  This year’s World Health Day focuses on high blood pressure (hypertension), a condition that affects more than one in three adults worldwide, leads to heart disease and contributes to more than nine million deaths every year.  Sustainable living practices should help prevent and control high blood pressure in the cases where medication is not needed.