High blood pressure to rocket in the future

Over 1.5 billion people worldwide will suffer from high blood pressure by 2025 and the world's poorest countries will be the worst affected, US researchers warn. As written in The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com , the researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans http://www.tulane.edu estimate that 75 per cent will be from developing countries. Millions will die from heart attacks and strokes in further years unless treatments and prevention strategies are employed, the scientists warn. Changes in diet and increasing levels of inactivity are cited as the two most likely reasons for blood pressures to soar in the future.