Every year, May 17 is dedicated to World Hypertension Day (WHD).
The purpose of the World Hypertension Day (WHD):
- To motivate the common public for regular checkup of their blood pressure at least once a year.
- To encourage the people having hypertension on a global basis to go to their health practitioner for a regular checkup and proper treatment.
- To promote all the common public especially youths and young people to maintain their normal weight, normal cholesterol level, normal blood pressure, healthy living, healthy eating, regular physical exercise and etc.
- To encourage people to leave their bad habits like drinking alcohol, lazy routine, oily and fatty diet, fried and spicy diet, smoking, obese, overweight and etc.
Hypertension is high blood pressure. The force of blood flowing through your blood vessels is consistently too high. Hypertension is sometimes called the ‘silent killer’ because it produces no symptoms and could go unnoticed and untreated for years.
World Hypertension Day is an initiative of the World Hypertension League (WHL), a part of the International Society of Hypertension. WHL the day to increase the common public awareness about hypertension. The group launched the campaign of World Hypertension Day first time on May 14 in 2005 however it moved to May 17 in 2006.
This year's theme is Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer, focusing on combatting low awareness rates worldwide, especially in low to middle income areas, and accurate blood pressure measurement methods.
The theme of 2021 is “Accelerating Digital Transformation in challenging times”.
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