The Danger Of Hypertension

Every two seconds a lot of people died from hypertension or disease known as high blood diseases. But unfortunately, many people do not understand the disease. Because no specific symptoms.
“In Indonesia, hypertension is the number one cause of death. But many people do not know, and him after the sudden death,” said Head of / SMF heart dr Soetomo General Hospital, Bangkok, Prof Dr M Yogiarto in the Media Conference and Education Watch Hypertension Disease and Disease-Penyertanya as the threat of the World’s Largest Death at Hotel JW Marriot Embong Malang Road, Friday (11/4/2008).
Yogi, greeting familiar, at Surabaya every day there are 300 patients who came for treatment. And the average patient who comes over the age of 40 years and over.
There are several factors that cause hypertension is influenced by lifestyle, obesity, stress, and also influenced the number of drugs, nutrition and genetic factors.
“5 percent of hypertension due to drugs and 95 percent due to hereditary factors,” he said.