Hypertension-Driven Disease Rapidly Rising in Sub-Saharan Africa

Based on the experience of a large hospital in Tanzania, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have discovered a "startlingly" high burden of hypertension in this sub-Saharan African country.

In the Journal of Hypertension, the researchers say non-communicable disease — driven primarily by hypertension, resulting in stroke and other cardiovascular diseases — accounted for nearly half of the deaths and admissions during a three-year period at Weill Bugando Medical Center, one of Tanzania's preeminent teaching hospitals.

Read the full article at weill.cornell.edu.