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“Smoking or chewing tobacco can raise your blood pressure, increasing the risk for heart diseases and heart attack. Tobacco use also increases risk of severe COVID-19 infection.”
| 18 May 2021 3:04 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: Smoking or chewing tobacco can raise your blood pressure, increasing the risk for heart diseases and heart attack. Tobacco use also increases the risk of severe COVID-19 infection. Said the renowned Cardiologist of the State Dr. Chinmoy Mazumdar. Today on the occasion of World Hypertension Day, Chief Consultant Cardiologist of Hayat Hospital, Guwahati, Dr. Mazumdar share some thoughts in the context of the present COVID19 pandemic situation and urge Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to strengthen COPTA 2003 to regulate the availability of tobacco products to protect Indians from tobacco-related diseases & deat
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Port of Spain – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) on Monday urged regional governments, civil society and private sector organisations and other stakeholders to adopt a more holistic approach to reducing the prevalence of hypertension in the Caribbean.
In a message marking
World Hypertension Day, under the theme ‘Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer”, the CARPHA said that the Caribbean governments and other stakeholders should work towards achieving a 25 per cent decline in the prevalence of hypertension by 2025 and premature mortality by a third by 2030.
CARPHA said hypertension or raised blood pressure is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases worldwide, with the non-Latin Caribbean having the highest mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease, accounting for 418 per 100 000 population.