Statistics reveal that over 10 crore people in India suffer from some form of hypertension at present, resulting in poor productivity at work among several other negatives. The World Health Organization, as it completes its 65 years, has even dedicated year 2013 to studies on high blood-pressure. Experts, Devendra Triguna, president of All India Ayurved Congress; Dr Jitendra Kumar, senior nephrologist at Asian Institute of Medical Science, and Sunil Mittal, director of Delhi Psychiatry Centre, discuss all about high-blood pressure, how common a problem it is becoming in India and how much of it is related to money.
