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> he number of people living with high blood pressure has more than doubled since 1990

> To find out how hypertension rates

So are they talking about raw numbers of cases or rates? That's confusing because the population has massively increased in the past 30 years so of course there should be more cases...

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Good point. World population increased 50% since 1990 and they are comparing raw numbers. So really it is a ~35% increase in the rate and a doubling in absolute numbers.

Gave me a scare there. World population has only increased by 3 billion since 1990. We good. /s

> World population has only increased by 3 billion since 1990

And nobody is dying from Hunger anymore. What a miracle, if you think about it.

More like 5 million per year: https://oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-pub...

Which is fewer than 1990, despite the population growing.

So?

Imo, 1 billion a decade is way too much. Experts say it will slow down, tbf.

It won't be a problem if we actually start colonizing space. Some safety will have to go out the window, though.

May be more people measure their blood pressure now? I never cared about it. This year when getting COVID vaccine doctor checked my pressure and it was higher than normal. If not for COVID, I wouldn’t even know about it. Might be an interesting correlation, if doctors check blood pressure before vaccination in other countries.

> May be more people measure their blood pressure now? I never cared about it

Definitely. Especially in non-western countries most people were never tested in the first place.

That's why it's called the silent killer. You can have it for years and have no idea until something really bad happens (heart attack, stroke).

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