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In Sub-Saharan Africa Hypertension-Driven Disease Rapidly Rising
Based on the experience of a large hospital in Tanzania, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have discovered a "startlingly" high burden of hypertension in this sub-Saharan African country. In the Journal of Hypertension, the researchers say non-communicable disease -- driven primarily by hypertension, resulting in stroke and other cardiovascular diseases -- accounted for nearly half of the deaths and admissions during a three-year period at Weill Bugando Medical Center, one of Tanzania's preeminent teaching hospitals...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news
