A Paediatrician at the 37 Military Hospital, Dr Adeline Asante-Kwabiah, has disclosed that children can also get hypertension, as the disease is not limited only to adults. Dr Asante-Kwabiah, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on World Hypertension Day, that most of the cases in children often had an underlying medical condition. The 2025 World […]
There is a growing number of young people with hypertension and diabetes in the country, the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC), Dr Kwame Anim-Boamah, has said. He said some of the patients were either non-compliant or not on any treatment, making it the number one cause of end-stage renal […]
Nearly 1.3 billion people globally suffer from hypertension, a silent killer often driven by obesity that increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Hypertension can be easily diagnosed by monitoring blood pressure, and treated with low-cost drugs, but half of the affected people are […]
