A consultant nephrologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Dwomoah Adu, has underscored the need for regular checks of blood pressure, for people to know their blood pressure levels and also decrease the risk of developing complications associated with hypertension.
According to him, most people who have high blood pressure or hypertension do not show any symptoms until it gets to a serious state where there is heart and kidney failure or stroke.
Speaking at the launch of a fixed-dose combination therapy of irbesartan and amlodipine for the treatment of hypertension by Sanofi, a global health care provider, Dr Adu, who is a specialist in kidney care and treating diseases of the kidneys, said “we know that one-third of Ghanaian adults have high blood pressure, but there are no symptoms contrary to what people think, and, therefore, most people will not discover it until they come to the hospital with heart failure, kidney failure or a stroke.