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The Ministry of Health and Wellness, through its Non-Communicable Disease & Injury Prevention Unit recently launched a fact-filled, entertaining and fun Hypertension Jingle Competition on their social media platforms.
The jingle competition supported by private sector partners, Jamaica Public Service and First Heritage Cooperative Credit Union (FHC) will see winners in two categories receiving tablets and a talking automated Blood Pressure Monitor Machine respectively.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of morbidity in the Jamaican population. Furthermore, ‘pressure’ as it is popularly referred to, is a major cause of a range of health problems such as strokes, heart attacks and kidney disease, and can also contribute to dementia.
A survey has shown that many Jamaicans are unaware that they are afflicted with hypertension, which is delaying treatment and in some circumstances result in deaths.
According to Medical Epidemiologist Non-Communicable Disease and Injury Prevention Unit at the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW), Dr Julie Rowe Porter, the study found that approximately nearly 40,000 of the more than 80,000 Jamaicans afflicted with hypertension did not realise they had the illness.
Rowe Porter argued that this is worrying, as hypertension is a silent killer and among other issues, causes stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney disease. She said that hypertension and these cardiovascular diseases result in a third of the deaths recorded each year.
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