According to the India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) study, at least one in every four Indian adults suffers from hypertension, but only about 10% get their blood pressure under control.<\/span><\/p>\n Launched in: <\/b>2017<\/span><\/p>\n It is a multi-partner initiative <\/b>of the Union Health Ministry, ICMR, and the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/span><\/p>\n Aim: <\/b>To achieve the government\u2019s goal of a 25% relative reduction in raised blood pressure by 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>India has committed to a “25 by 25” goal. The goal aims to reduce premature mortality due <\/span>to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25% by 2025. One of the nine voluntary targets includes reducing the prevalence of high blood pressure by 25% by 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n Hypertension is defined as having a systolic blood pressure level greater than or equal to 140 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure level greater than or equal to 90 mmHg or\/and taking anti-hypertensive medication to lower his\/her blood pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the National Family Health Survey<\/a>, Southern States have a higher prevalence of hypertension than the national average.<\/span><\/p>\n Kerala ranks highest with 32.8% of men and 30.9% of women being diagnosed with hypertension.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The prevalence of hypertension is higher among Sikhs (37% for men and 31% for women), Jains (30% for men and 25% for women), and Christians (29% for men and 26% for women) than the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>One In Four Adults In India Suffers From Hypertension, Says ICMR<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Livemint<\/b> on<\/span> 11th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to the India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) study, at least one in every four Indian adults suffers from hypertension, but only about 10% get their blood pressure under control. What is the India Hypertension Control Initiative(IHCI)? Launched in: 2017 It is a multi-partner initiative of the Union Health Ministry, ICMR,… Continue reading One In Four Adults In India Suffers From Hypertension, Says ICMR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-184244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the India Hypertension Control Initiative(IHCI)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Hypertension?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How prevalent is the problem of hypertension?<\/b><\/h5>\n