Filenews 24 May 2022
The month of May and the campaign of the Cyprus Society of Cardiology in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Medochemie continues with the aim of protecting citizens from the serious and insidious disease of hypertension.
Sedentary lifestyle, lack of physical exercise, unhealthy diet, obesity, stress and smoking are reasons that contribute to the increase of hypertension cases, which take on pandemic proportions, said in an intervention in the show AGENDA on ACTIVE, cardiologist Dr. Thrasos Konstantinidis.
"Blood pressure does not give symptoms, except in extreme cases when it rises abruptly, to cause headache or chest pains, so it is characterized as a silent killer. Because it causes damage little by little to our vessels, without giving symptoms."
"We urge people to often consider their pressure at home," Mr. Konstantinidis said, recommending that the public visit the Cyprus heart company's page [in Greek] read what the approved blood pressure monitors are and buy what suits them.
Blood pressure [in English]
