60% OF ARMENIANS HAVE EXCESS WEIGHT AND 26% – ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
YEREVAN, JUNE 3. ARMINFO. According to recent investigations conducted
by the Armenian Medical Association (AMA), 26% of Armenian citizens
have arterial hypertension.
Chief of the AMA Parunak Zelveyan informed at today’s press-conference
that the investigations were conducted in Yerevan, 800 people of
various ages were questioned. According to the questioning, 60% of
respondents had the excess weight, 90% noted that they do not realize
or do not take into consideration the information about the harm of
cholesterol excess in blood. 50% of questioned hypertensive patients
noted that they received medical treatment only a week. In Zalveyan’s
opinion, short treatment is worse than not receive treatment at all.
Zalveyan noted that Armenia’s government should take measures for
precautions of hypertension and to enter to the state order patients
with arterial hypertension as most of them give up the treatment
because of the inaccessibility of drug prices.