19.1 million Nigerian adults had hypertension in 2019 – WHO report

A global report on hypertension released by the World Health Organisation has shown that 19.1 million adults aged 30 to 79 years had hypertension in 2019. The WHO, using the 2019 population of 203,300,000, said 1,650,000 million Nigerians died from injuries, maternal-related causes, non-communicable diseases, and others in the same period. The report showed that