Just one in five people with hypertension have controlled it, the World Health Organization said.
Eighty per cent of people with hypertension don’t receive adequate treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s first report on the topic.
Though the condition is common with one in three people being affected on a global scale, the organisation estimates that it is severely underdiagnosed.
“Hypertension can be controlled effectively with simple, low-cost medication regimens, and yet only about one in five people with hypertension have controlled it,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
