High blood pressure: 700 million hypertensive people are untreated

2023-05-15 08:00:03
A chronic disease, arterial hypertension is an hypertension of the blood on the walls of the arteries. There are thus 1.28 billion people with high blood pressure in the world, including 700 million who are not treated. Can hypertension be prevented? How is the diagnosis made? What are the treatments for this cardiovascular condition? What diet to adopt? Pr Xavier Girerd, President of the Foundation for Research on Arterial Hypertension (FRHTA) and cardiologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris Pr Euloge Kramoh, Director General of the Abidjan Heart Institute. Former President of the Ivorian Society of Cardiology. Former President of the Cardiology Societies of West and Central Africa. Director of the Diploma of Higher Studies in Cardiology of Côte d’Ivoire. ► At the end of the program, we will take stock of the new results of research carried out on the long Covid which highlight the persistence of the virus in the mucous membranes. We talk regarding it with Jérôme Estaquier, researcher at Inserm and co-author of the study. ► See also: The chain of high blood pressure by “Hypertension France”.
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