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The Ministry of Health and Wellness, through its Non-Communicable Disease & Injury Prevention Unit recently launched a fact-filled, entertaining and fun Hypertension Jingle Competition on their social media platforms.
The jingle competition supported by private sector partners, Jamaica Public Service and First Heritage Cooperative Credit Union (FHC) will see winners in two categories receiving tablets and a talking automated Blood Pressure Monitor Machine respectively.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of morbidity in the Jamaican population. Furthermore, ‘pressure’ as it is popularly referred to, is a major cause of a range of health problems such as strokes, heart attacks and kidney disease, and can also contribute to dementia.
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CLEVELAND - Follow-up data from the landmark SPRINT study of the effect of high blood pressure on cardiovascular disease have confirmed that aggressive blood pressure management lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death from these diseases, as well as death from all causes, compared to lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 140 mm Hg. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) is the upper number in the blood pressure measurement, 140/90, for example.
In findings published in the May 20, 2021 issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine, investigators presented new evidence of the effectiveness of reducing SBP to a target range of less than 120 mm Hg.
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