World Health Day 2013: Control your blood pressure
WKC Forum, 7 April 2013, Kobe, Japan
WHO
This World Health Day, 7 April 2013, WHO and partners focus on the global problem of high blood pressure. Though it affects one in three adults worldwide, it remains largely hidden. Many people do not know they have high blood pressure because it does not always cause symptoms. As a result, it leads to more than nine million deaths every year, including about half of all deaths due to heart disease and stroke.
In commemoration of this year's World Health Day, the WHO Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre - WKC) organized an open forum in Kobe.
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