200 mn suffer from hypertension in China

By IANS
Sunday, October 24, 2010

BEIJING - More than 200 million people suffer from high blood pressure in China and the disease claims 2.3 million lives a year in the country, China Daily reported Sunday.

At an awareness raising event, experts said that high dietary sodium was a major factor for the high prevalence of hypertension.

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