As Blood Pressure Awareness Week approaches, the medical community are united behind the urgent need for universal blood pressure testing in an attempt to stop millions of people suffering strokes or cardiac events and dying needlessly.
Millions of UK citizens are unaware that they tread a tightrope between life and death every day.
High Blood Pressure is a stealthy assassin, currently targeting 16 million victims in the UK alone. The majority of these people feel perfectly well.
Blood Pressure Awareness Week 2019, 9-15 September
THE SILENT KILLER: New blood pressure survey findings and expert comment from Kinetik Wellbeing and St John's Ambulance available next week.
Of the 16 million people in Britain have high blood pressure, 5.5 million people are unaware that they have it.*
High blood pressure is known as The Silent Killer. It is largely symptomless with the result that thousands of people go undiagnosed every year.
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease (causing over half of all strokes and heart attacks), kidney disease and vascular dementia.
The number of people in the UK dying from heart and circulatory diseases before the age of 75 is RISING.
The yearly mortality rate is in excess of 75,000.
80% of all sufferers of high blood pressure do not take their medication because they feel fine.
The cost to the NHS is over £2.1 billion annually.
people in deprived areas are more likely to have high blood pressure.
Every adult in the UK would benefit from a blood pressure machine.
Kinetik Wellbeing are offering complimentary BP monitoring machines for review and survey findings will be available upon request ahead of Blood Pressure
Awareness Week: https://www.kinetikwellbeing.c
If you would like to participate in the awareness campaign, contact Melanie at melanie@kbapr.com.
*Source: British Heart Foundation