How many people die every year from hypertension, in the US alone?

January 4th, 2009 | by Pressurized |
tazzdevil786 asked:


How many people die every year from hypertension, in the US alone?

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  1. 3 Responses to “How many people die every year from hypertension, in the US alone?”

  2. By cowkathy on Jan 8, 2009 | Reply

    Deaths from Hypertension

    Deaths from Hypertension: 16,968 annual deaths from primary hypertension and hypertensive renal disease in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001)
    Death rate extrapolations for USA for Hypertension: 16,967 per year, 1,413 per month, 326 per week, 46 per day, 1 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.

    Death statistics for Hypertension: The following are statistics from various sources about deaths and Hypertension:

    Causes 5 million premature deaths each year worldwide (WHO World Health Report, 2002)
    Causes 13% of global fatalities (WHO World Health Report, 2002)
    19,250 people died from hypertension each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
    8.7 people per 100,000 population died from hypertension each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, C

  3. By Gotch on Jan 11, 2009 | Reply

    over 50,000 people???

  4. By Diane D on Jan 14, 2009 | Reply

    Not as many as used to. Safe and effective medicines to treat high blood pressure have only been around for 50 years. High blood pressure used to be a major killer, due to hypertensive encephalopathy (brain damage) and kidney failure. Two presidents–Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt–essentially died of complications of high blood pressure. Now the death rate due to hypertension is about 1/10th what it used to be. But high blood pressure is still a major risk factor for today’s number one killer–heart disease.

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