The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has revealed that 30 per cent of the state’s residents suffer from hypertension, with 70 per cent unaware of their condition.
This is as the government launched a week-long free health screening exercise for hypertension and diabetes, targeting 800,000 residents across the state.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Health on Friday, Mr Abayomi expressed concern over the alarming prevalence of the “silent killers of hypertension and diabetes,” stressing that hypertension is a leading cause of heart disease, strokes, and kidney failure.
“With a hypertension prevalence rate of 30 per cent, a staggering 8.67 million people in Lagos are affected by high blood pressure. Even more concerning, 70 per cent of those living with hypertension, which amounts to over 6 million individuals, are completely unaware of their condition,” he said.
The professor noted that obesity, a known contributor to both…