Srinagar, May 31, 2022 (PPI-OT):Decades of braving conflict over Jammu and Kashmir and resultant oppression, lockdowns, custodial deaths and physical injuries inflicted by Indian occupation troops have heavily cost the health of Kashmiri people in the occupied territory.

A fresh report by India’s National Family Health Survey (NFHS) has revealed that 18.9 percent men and 20 percent women in the above 15 age group are battling hypertension in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In the pre-hypertensive category, IIOJK has 55.9 percent women and 60.3 percent men, in aged above 15 group, stated the latest report (NFHS-5) which was recently released by Indian Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in Vadodara, Gujarat.

According to the report, in IIOJK, 0.8 percent of women who are aged above 15 have normal blood pressure, while in the same age group, 0.5 percent of men have blood pressure. As per NFHS, 1 percent of men are in the severely elevated range, 1.8 percent are in the moderately elevated range and 12.3 percent of men have mildly elevated blood pressure. Besides this, 24.7 percent of men have normal BP.

However, the report also stated that among women aged above 15, 29.4 percent have normal blood pressure. In the same age bracket, 11.7 percent, 2.1 percent and 1 percent of women are in the mildly elevated, moderately elevated and severely elevated range.

Notably, high blood pressure or commonly known as hypertension is a common condition in which the long-term force of the blood against the artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart disease. Last year, hypertension has assumed an epidemic proportion in IIOJK as 19 percent of the population above 15 years were suffering from high blood pressure and taking medicines to control it.

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