Hypertension is a common and frequently-occurring disease worldwide, which seriously threatens human health. Therefore,1April 7, 978, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Cardiology Societies decided to set this day as? World Hypertension Day? It aims to arouse people's attention to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
2 Introduction Hypertension is the most important chronic disease that harms human health. It involves a wide range and is seriously harmful. Now it is not only a health care problem, but also has a great impact on society.
Since the 1970s, due to the great attention paid to the prevention and treatment of hypertension in the world, the most important achievement is the establishment of the World Hypertension Alliance, which is composed of national hypertension alliance groups, and the national hypertension alliance is composed of epidemiological and clinical experts from various countries.
The main task of the World Hypertension Union is to educate and publicize the whole people, including patients and medical staff, to have a scientific and reasonable lifestyle and prevent the occurrence of hypertension. Publicize the importance of treating hypertension and so on.
The World Hypertension Union decided to designate the second weekend of May (Saturday) as World Hypertension Day from xx. China officially became a member of the World Hypertension Union on May 1989, and also established the corresponding China Hypertension Union.
This is World Hypertension Day.