New Delhi: It's World Health Day on Sunday and the focus is on one of the biggest killers of this century. High blood pressure which affects one in three adults globally and 214 million Indians are projected to by hypertensive by 2030.
9.4 million Indians die due to hypertension every year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Nearly a third of young Indians - 33 per cent of men and 32 per cent of women under 25 - have hypertension or high blood pressure.
And yet, half of those who suffer from it, don't even know it and more than 40 per cent of those with high blood pressure do not have a family history. Though those with diabetes and heart trouble are at a higher risk.
Certain lifestyle changes can decrease your chances of getting hypertension by upto 50 per cent. Mainly cutting down salt intake and not smoking. Doctors also advice a healthy lifestyle. ...
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08:42 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Lucknow: An inflamatory post on social networking site Facebook resulted in communal tension in Meerut on Friday as angry members of a community stoned a mini-truck and a bus carrying a marriage party, police said. Soon after the post lampooning a specific religion was noticed, mobs took to the streets raising slogans and pelting stones. Twelve people were injured after which police cracked down on the irate mob and brought...
04:47 AM, Apr 06, 2013
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05:58 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Pope Francis, appearing before more than 250,000 people for his first Easter Sunday address, called for world peace, respect for the environment and a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. ...
11:29 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. In his first "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message, Francis also called for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, an end to the civil war in Syria, and political solutions to conflicts in several African countries. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets new Chinese President Xi Jingping on Wednesday, with both countries waiting for a new direction to bilateral ties that had seen some ups and downs in recent years, particularly over unresolved border tensions. ...
04:40 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Controversy has risen over the Delhi Metro extension from Delhi's Dilshad Garden to New Bus Stand here with the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation unwilling to fund the project but the municipal commissioner seeking the Uttar Pradesh government's permission to overrule it. ...
12:26 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Stressing that India-Pakistan peace was in the long-term national interest, union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor on Friday hoped the "dumbing down" of temperature by Islamabad over the past few days would enable a return to peace after the tension along the LoC. ...
12:57 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Defence Minister AK Antony has hit back at Pakistan for claiming that Indian soldiers were involved in the beheading of Pakistani soldiers. Calling the reports 'totally baseless', Antony said, "A series of reports coming on Kargil also show that even though at the moment after the second round of talks at the DGMO level, situation at the LOC is better but we can't lower our guards, we have to be...
11:09 AM, Jan 31, 2013
The trade and bus services resumes from the Line of Control in Poonch. 88 passengers from India and 108 from Pakistan travelled on the trans-LoC bus on Monday. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 28, 2013
India wants friendly relations with Pakistan, but it will not be possible unless Pakistan makes equal efforts, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in Jaipur on Sunday. ...
03:36 AM, Jan 21, 2013
The aggression on the Line of Control has taken a toll on performing arts now with curtains being drawn on plays to be performed by Pakistani artists just hours before starting. ...
11:59 AM, Jan 19, 2013
The Pakistan High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir has reiterated that Pakistan had nothing to do with the killings of the two Indian soldiers on January 8. He also said that clear instructions have been given to the Pakistani Army to observe a ceasefire. ...
08:25 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Regretting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had lent his "voice to the hawks" in the current India-Pakistan tensions, Jammu and Kashmir's opposition PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said the recent events along the LoC were a "severe setback" to the peace process. ...
03:05 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Pakistan has climbed down from its demand for a United Nations (UN) probe into the killing of Indian soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) last week and the tension has eased since the talks between top military officials of the two sides. ...
04:51 PM, Jan 17, 2013
A day after Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar invited her Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid for talks to defuse the LoC tension, India has said it will be possible only after those responsible for the barbaric killings of the two Indian soldiers are brought to book. "The only problem that needs to be resolved is the inhuman behaviour of the Pakistan forces. Talks with Pakistan are possible only after Pakistan...
11:10 AM, Jan 17, 2013
As the tensions between India and Pakistan escalated with more ceasefire violations reported on Tuesday and the war of words intensifying on Wednesday, both the countries are now looking for measures to de-escalate it. While both the countries have ordered their troops to strictly honour the ceasefire agreement, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has invited her Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid for talks. ...
07:49 AM, Jan 17, 2013
Three people were killed and six injured when a man opened fire during a clash between two groups in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district, police said Monday. The incident occurred Sunday night in Jillela village of the district, about 300 km from here, as a row between two groups over a piece of land abutting a place of worship escalated. ...
11:10 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Hyderabad: An uneasy calm settled over the old city of Hyderabad on Monday, a day after leaders of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) protested and were subsequently arrested over a temple controversy. With tension still palpable in the usually busy areas around historic Charminar and in the interior areas, Road Transport Corporation (RTC) suspended all its bus services. RTC officials said 157 services were cancelled as a precautionary measure. A curfew-like...
10:52 AM, Nov 12, 2012
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10:09 AM, Nov 06, 2012
