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Article: High blood pressure may soon cause heart disease epidemic: Report
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- The Hindustan Times
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- April 20, 2007
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London, April 20 -- The strains of modern life could soon give high blood pressure to more than half of adults and eventually cause a heart disease epidemic, revealed a study discussed by the European Parliament this week.
The study, partly authored by experts at the London School of Economics, said that the number of sufferers could soar 60 per cent by 2025 if urgent actions were not taken right away.
It also stated that the pressures of modern life did not only affect the elderly people.
"If high blood pressure was an infectious disease, we would mobilise against it as militantly as if it was avian influenza ...