Q: Can you tell me what percent of people who have high blood pressure actually end up having a heart and/or a stroke?
A: Worldwide about 17 million people die every year from a heart attack or stroke. (http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases) A little over half of these deaths are caused by high blood pressure. (9th edition of Bonow: Braunwald’s Heart Disease-A textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine found online at www.mdconsult.com) The population of the world is about 2 billion people. This means that around 17 million people die every year from high blood pressure. Approximately 33% of all adults have high blood pressure. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/hyprtens.htm) Based on the above figures, .4% of people with high blood pressure die every year. Keep in mind some people who have a heart attack or stroke actually die from another cause so this figure is low. I realize this is not an exact answer to your question but medical statistics on the worldwide impact of a disease look at death rates.
Further Reading:
High Blood Pressure and Stroke – WebMD.com
How Does Hypertension Cause Strokes? – LiveStrong.com
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The population of the world is 2 billion people???
The population of the world is a little over 6 billion, not 2 billion. Please check your figures and post a correction.
It is in fact closer to 7 billion. Not encouraging either way.
Did you fail math in high school? If worldwide 17 million die each year from a heart attack or stroke and a little over half of these are caused by high blood pressure how can you then say “This means that around 17 million people die every year from high blood pressure.”
I think the numbers shows about half did not have high blood pressure, half did. Then we assume that high blood pressure was the cause of their heart attack or stroke.
World population is about 6.9 or close to 7 billion and not 2 billion. Then based on 33% there would be about more than 2 billion would have high B.P.
This answer leaves out a very important factor, as it does not specify treated blood pressure or untreated. I would think this percentage does not apply to those who have kept their BP under control.
Assuming typo in text, so 2 billion people has HBP, and 8.5 million die from heart attack or stroke, 0.4% number is correct.
This article’s logic has so many holes in ti I don’t know where to begin.
Oh I get it, 2 billion have HBP. Wow, that’s a lot of folks.Sad thing is, if most simply changed their lifestyles they wouldn’t have this problem or have to be on drugs to deal with it.
2 Billion have high bp in the world and if you are one of them, then you have a .4% chance of dying from a heart attack or stroke. If you are one of the 4 billion in the world who do not have high bp, then you have a .2% chance of dying. In other words, with high bp you are twice as likely to have a bad cardio outcome!(This is based upon 17 million dying each year from heart attacks and strokes during the year.)The warning is there,get the bp down.
By the way the bad news of these figures just raised my blood pressure.
High Blood Pressure will never end until we start eliminating all of the toxins we create and expose ourselves to, both mentally & physically. when you think of the amount of chemicals, gmos, additives, and mental stress its no wonder more & more people have high blood pressure. Not too mention the average person does not even detox themselves with simple water daily. High Blood Pressure is nothing more of an indicator that the body is under high stress & full of toxins.
water today contains toxins and at least some level of chlorine in bottled water.
Maybe the miscounted 4 or 5 billion people are illegal aliens.
Listen to the news and you will have HP. Exercise is the key.
World adult population is around 4.4 billion.
the 33% figure is U.S. only.
8.5 million/4.4billion = .19%
As usually, funny math to sell more drugs. So, “ALMOST” half heart attacks happen with people with NORMAL or low BP. In really your chance of dying from High BP only “SLIGHTLY” higher according to the statistics. If you are willing to undergo all the side effects of bp medications for a SLIGHT chance, you are a fool.
I totally agree…. people who take bp meds do have strokes and heart attacks!
Meds treat symptoms but but do not cure the root cause. The best way to address the root cause is via diet and exercise.
The biggest risk factor for heart attack and stroke is high cholesterol. Studies have shown that those with total cholesterol levels <150 and LDL <80 do not have heart attacks. 99% of all heart attacks and 92% of all strokes are due to ischemia or lack of blood flow due to plaque and cholesterol in the arteries. Less than 8% of strokes are hemmorhagic due to hypertension.
Well maybe it’s time to re adjust the standard for bp to higher than 120/80 and stop the madness of “pre disease” hysteria! Only the Drug companies get richer when we listen to the madness of pre disease.
Hi, What is the best medication to treat the HBP ?
Exercise and pristine diet. Start with DASH and then go brainless, sugarless and low carb and watch your numbers fall.
I’ve had good results with the standard DASH diet but even better results with a plant based diet that eliminates animal protein, oil and dairy. I also supplement with a multivitamin containing 1000IU of Vitamin D, 100mg of CoQ10 and 2000mg of Fish Oil. I was able to wean myself off drugs in about 4 months using this regimen.
Tat was grainless! Stupids iPad autocorrect!