Montevideo, 1 sep (EFE).-Uruguay today launched the national day of hypertension, aimed at sensitizing the population about the importance of controlling blood pressure to avoid possible problems to health, with a series of tests to the politicians in the country, headed by Vice President Danilo Astori.
Armed with manometers and stethoscope, the medical team of the Uruguayan Parliament, Astori is President, toured the offices and rooms of the building to take the tension to all officials and present legislators willing to draw attention to a wrong very common and easy to identify.
As he told Efe the nurse of the Mora Carmen MarÃa Parliament, the idea is to draw the attention of the citizens and that those who have high blood pressure can be treated her and start to take medical advice.
“Hypertension is related to a significant morbidity in Uruguay, which means that with hypertension alone, or together with other diseases, it appears as a cause of death and origin of other evils.” “But it can be treated and controlled to avoid having thus fewer opportunities for acquiring diseases that are predictable,” added.
Astori, 71 years and he suffered severe pneumonia less than two years that he remained hospitalized, he controlled his tension in a cloud of photographers and journalists to start mobilization.
In the end, the figures obtained by the veteran political, former Minister of the economy in the Government of Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010), they were positive and not asked to continue any treatment.
With regard to the overall health of Uruguayan lawmakers, Mora confided that hypertension is a bad common among them, “because stress is contributing” to have a high tension and to generate disease cardiovascular.
“Legislators are more or less controlled, we actually like the rest of the Uruguayans, and we want that all are checked, not only today and not only members, but all officials of this building and in the end all citizens,” said the nurse.
The idea is to draw the attention of the citizens and that those who have high blood pressure can be treated her and start to take medical advice. EFE/file
