Abstract

Review Article

Hypertension as a persistent public health problem. A position paper from Alliance for a Healthy Heart, Mexico

Martin Rosas-Peralta*, Luis Alcocer, Humberto Álvarez-López, Gabriela Borrayo-Sánchez, Ernesto Germán Cardona-Muñoz, Adolfo Chávez-Mendoza, Enrique Díaz y Díaz, José Manuel Enciso-Muñoz, Héctor Galván-Oseguera, Enrique Gómez-Álvarez, Pedro Gutiérrez-Fajardo, Héctor Hernández y Hernández, Francisco Javier León-Hernández, José Antonio Magaña-Serrano and José Zacarías Parra-Carrillo

Published: 03 April, 2019 | Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Pages: 009-030

Today, Mexico has more than 130 million inhabitants; 85 millions of them are adults of 20 or more years old. The population pyramid is still one of base wider and this base corresponds to adults younger than 54 years old. Despite predictions made 20 years ago, about a transformation of the population pyramid shape to a mushroom shape as a consequence of more life expected and adult population growth; this change has not been occurred. Hypertension has become the biggest challenge of noncommunicable chronic diseases to public health in Mexico. Around 30% of adult Mexican population has hypertension; 75% of them have less than 54 years old (in productive age); 40% of them are unaware but only 50% of aware hypertensive population takes drugs and, 50% of them are controlled (< 140/90 mmHg). Cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, and diabetes often cohabit in the same person and are magnified one to another in terms of common pathophysiological pathways. Atherosclerosis, arrhythmias, stroke and heart failure are common and are the final pathologic end-points and explains why cardiovascular diseases occupy first place in mortality in Mexico and worldwide. The costs of care for these diseases are billionaires and if we do not generate appropriate strategies, their global impact can become a high threat to social development of the country. The life style like nutrition, sports habits of the Mexicans must be emphasized; there is poor education about this crucial topic. This position paper is focused on the principal controversies and strategies to be developed by all, government, society, physicians, nurses, patients and all people related with healthcare of hypertension, in order to confront this huge public health problem in Mexico.

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