Over 70 per cent of traders at the Mallam Market have various states of high blood pressure but are unaware, a study by Knoxxi Health Ghana has revealed.
The study revealed that only 28.3 per cent of them had normal blood pressure, and the remaining 71.7 per cent, mainly women, had between stage one to crisis stage hypertension.
It said 31.9 per cent of the traders had stage one hypertension, 22.9 per cent had stage two hypertension, 14.9 per cent had reached elevated level blood pressures, while a few, 2.09 per cent had reached crisis level.
The study majority of the crisis cases were persons of ages 65 and above, while a few of them, between the ages of 25 and 64 also had conditions that could be described as crisis.
