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Can Hypertension Be Prevented?

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With a current worldwide prevalence of 25 % and estimates of 90 % of those living an average lifespan developing hypertension, there is an increasing perception that hypertension is inevitable. Yet the major causes of hypertension (pathogenic diet, lack of physical activity, obesity , and excess alcohol consumption) are known and are potentially amenable to interventions at an individual or more importantly at a societal level. Changing approaches to health-care delivery to ensure the routine provision of effective preventative interventions, ensuring communities are designed to support healthy lifestyles, and that the national and regional governments implement well-known and highly recommended public policies to ensure the places where people live and work are healthy could markedly reduce the prevalence of hypertension. Most of the changes to reduce the prevalence of hypertension require health system and public policy changes. Because increased blood pressure is a major determinant of premature disability and death, clinicians and scientists interested in hypertension should play a much greater role in leading and supporting the changes that are required.

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  2. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Research, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  3. Departments of Medicine, of Community Health Sciences, and of Physiology and Pharmacology and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4Z6, Canada

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Jones, C., Campbell, N.R.C. (2012). Can Hypertension Be Prevented?. In: Berbari, A., Mancia, G. (eds) Special Issues in Hypertension. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2601-8_31

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