On the occasion of world hypertension day 2014: A nephrology point of view

The World Hypertension Day celebrates 17th of May of each year by focusing on an important global health issue.[1] For World Hypertension Day 2014, they have selected “know your blood pressure” as the theme. Many surveys from various countries throughout the world pointed out that the public’s awareness of their blood pressure levels was very inadequate.[1,2] Even in highly developed, resource-rich populations with high-quality health care systems, alertness of highblood pressure was not enough. While in many of the developing countries, there was transition from infectious to some other chronic diseases; however, the prevalence of high-blood pressure is increasing in their population. [1-4] Together, public alertness of high-blood pressure in the low- and middle-income countries is quite miserable, while many surveys stated that the high-blood pressure is the leading cause of death worldwide.