This Friday May 17 is celebrated the World Day of Hypertension – Journal El Ciudadano y la Región

On May 17, the "Day of High Blood Pressure" is commemorated around the world. This chronic and silent disease, widespread in the national population (affecting one in three Argentinean), does not give the symptoms that motivate a medical consultation, so it often goes unnoticed for a long time, causing damage to the vascular, cerebral and cardiac. and renal. The only way to find and control it is to take blood pressure.

That's why the Arterial Hypertension Association adheres to the "Know and Control Your Blood Pressure" program, launched by the Argentine Society of Arterial Hypertension, the World League of Hypertension and the International Society of Arterial Hypertension. high blood pressure. The main goal is to get closer to the community by offering free blood pressure checks and providing information about this disease.

"Throughout this month, we will be taking turns on Fridays in the different municipal district centers of our city.This Friday we will be in the CMD West from 9h to 12h in a healthy stop and from 14h to 16h30 Plaza San Martín with the same modality Next Sunday, we will be on Calle Recreativa with health stops in Oroño and the river, as well as in San Martín and Ayolas, all thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Public health of the Municipality of Rosario and many institutions that have joined our project Know and control your blood pressure.It is easy.It is free, "they reported.