The Ghana Demographic Health Survey has revealed a disturbingly high prevalence of hypertension among males in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n
Those between the ages of 15 and 49, were found to be prone to abnormally high blood pressure.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”zfj5TN7OVlC36CA2Zd7X3KMXGHK0tvkV”]Dr. Mrs. Alberta Biritwum Nyarko, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Health Director, said they \u201care 10 times likely to have the disease than males in the same age group, elsewhere in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n
She made the findings of the survey known at the annual health performance review meeting in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
She could, however, not tell what was making more men in the region increasingly hypertensive, except to say that further research was being carried out to determine the cause.<\/p>\n
The meeting brought together health professionals from the various facilities and medical institutions, chiefs and representatives from civil society organizations.<\/p>\n
Dr. Mrs. Biritwum-Nyarko identified hypertension as the third highest cause of death in the metropolis.<\/p>\n
They were therefore determined to launch sustained public education and health outreach programmes to reverse the trend, she added.<\/p>\n
She spoke of the success they were making to bring down maternal deaths, saying that, it had reduced to 290 per 100,000 livebirths, from 336 per 100,000 livebirths.<\/p>\n
Infant mortality, she indicated, had also dropped from 3.6 per 1,000 livebirths to 1.9 per 1,000 livebirths.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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