45% of adults have hypertension. Because there may be no associated symptoms, many people do not know that they have high blood pressure.The World Health Organization (WHO) report that an estimated 1.13 billion people have high blood pressure worldwide.Despite hypertension’s increasing prevalence, it is still widely misunderstood.First, it is worth outlining what blood pressure is.
As the CDC explain, blood pressure is “the pressure of blood pushing against the walls of [the] arteries.”Blood pressure naturally rises and falls.