Innovative Approaches to Control Hypertension: Systematic Review
Adam Alaqeel *
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
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Abstract
One of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, high blood pressure is thought to have killed over 10 million people. One of the main goals of global health care is to improve the control of hypertension. Another significant risk factor for the majority of cardiac disorders is hypertension. Modern methods of controlling hypertension demand collaborative efforts from the patient, family, community, and health care providers. The researcher found after doing a thorough review of the literature that new methods of controlling hypertension are still being developed. It consists of surgical, technological, pharmaceutical, and non-pharmaceutical methods.
Keywords: Hypertension control, high blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, physiological stress