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Women, you need to get a sphygmomanometer home
I was checking online market place Flipkart to know the lowest price availble for a Sphygmomanometer - a blood pressure monitor.
The digital versions are priced a little higher but one low-priced conventional model that attracted my attention was Rossmax GB Series Aneroid Sphygmomanometer costing just Rs 720.
(For your grandmother in the village, why don’t you gift a Sphygmomanometer. Here’s the link if you think it is a good idea)
The price looks quite reasonable but it not for majority of 3.8 crore rural women ( 2011 Indian population census), who have been found having BP Slightly above normal (140-159/90-99 mm of Hg) during NFHS-4 for those aged between 15-54 years in India.
Worse, 76 lakh and 41 lakh rural Indian women were found to have Moderately High BP of 160-179/100-109 mm of Hg and Very High BP of ≥ 180/ ≥ 110 mm of Hg respectively as per the survey.
They too deserve to buy one to keep a check on their hypertension levels or you can just gift one today (Yeah, I don’t have any tie-up with Flipkart).
Watch Daily Health Digest’s video explainer on Hypertension in Indian rural and urban women to get a complete picture.
Well, the urban women are not immune to hypertension as they too were found affected in large numbers.
In urban areas in India, those with BP Slightly above normal (140-159/90-99 mm of Hg) for those aged between 15-54 years in India stood at 4.2 crore women.
This was followed by 94 lakh and 41 lakh urban Indian women having Moderately High BP of 160-179/100-109 mm of Hg and Very High BP of ≥ 180/ ≥ 110 mm of Hg respectively as per the survey. They probably need to procure a digital BP monitor!
For the record, 699,686 Indian women were surveyed from 601,509 households between January-2015 and December-2016
Want to know unknown types of Blood Pressure? Read The Different Manifestations of Hypertension explained by a well-known expert
It is time to wake up.
I am now wondering if it is a good zero budget start-up idea to offer BP monitoring service for a price to health conscious thronging city’s parks every morning.
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