Guidelines for treatment of hypertension

Malay Mail:A total of 70,000 Malaysians aged 18 and above will be probed deeper for evidence of hypertension in the 2006 National Health and Morbidity Study (NHMS) to be conducted next year.
"Doctors believe that a much more aggressive stance is needed to ascertain incidence of hypertension in treating the disease," said chairman Datuk Dr Zaki Morad Mohd Zaher, together with a working group developed the Malaysian Guidelines for the treatment of hypertension.
The guidelines were developed on behalf of the Health Ministry and Academy of Medicine.
The International Society of Hypertension estimates 42 per cent of the world’s population or almost one in two adults will be hypertensive by the year 2020.
According to the president of Malaysian Society of Hypertension, Datuk Dr Azhari Rosman, one in three Malaysians aged 30 and above suffer from hypertension while only six out of every 100 have their blood pressure under control.