{"id":4739,"date":"2019-05-21T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:59:25","slug":"omron-spearheads-campaign-to-encourage-filipinos-to-monitor-their-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/omron-spearheads-campaign-to-encourage-filipinos-to-monitor-their-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"OMRON spearheads campaign to encourage Filipinos to monitor their blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

High blood pressure is the leading cause of death in the Philippines. It is estimated that around 120,000 Filipinos are dying annually, directly or indirectly, due to hypertension-related complications such as stroke, heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise,\nthe number of hypertensive Filipinos continues to increase as many of them are\nunaware that they have high blood pressure. There are no symptoms and some\npeople only find out they have hypertension after they suffer a stroke or heart\nattack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nget rid of the steady growth of hypertension cases in the country, OMRON\nHealthcare Philippines, together with the Philippine Society of Hypertension\n(PSH), the Philippines Heart Association (PHA), and other health partners,\nspearheaded a campaign that encourages Filipinos to monitor their blood\npressure (BP) at home to promote hypertension prevention, detection and\ncontrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An\neffective way to detect hypertension is through daily self-monitoring of BP at\nhome. This is recommended to obtain reliable BP readings as monitoring is taken\nwithin the comfort of one\u2019s home, helping patients feel more relaxed as they\nare surrounded by familiar environment. Home blood pressure levels considered\nnormal are 130mmHg systolic BP and 80mmHg diastolic BP.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home\nBP monitoring can easily be adopted and practiced by anyone, whether living in\nurban or rural areas and belonging to any age groups. Performing regular BP\nmonitoring is actually a cost-effective solution in the long-run compared with\nfrequent visits to the doctor or hospital.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monitoring\nBP at home is encouraged to have a better understanding of a patient\u2019s BP\npattern, providing a chance of achieving BP control and reduce occurrence of\nhypertension-related complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nInternational Society of Hypertension (ISH), meanwhile, stresses the importance\nof regular screening to prevent complications caused by hypertension. To\nfurther this cause, ISH launched the May Measurement Month (MMM) initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An\nannual global screening campaign, the MMM aims to raise awareness about risks\nand issues brought about by hypertension. Locally, the MMM is in line with\nPresidential Proclamation 1761 which was enacted on May 1, 2009 by then\nPresident Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and declared the month of May of each year as\nHypertension Awareness Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe Philippines, the PSH leads the rollout of the campaign. The Philippines\nranked first in terms of total screened individuals when the MMM was launched\nin May 2017, having a total 272,000 individuals screened or 22% of the global\npooled data of 1.2-million for the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\naim to increase BP awareness to 80%, treatment rate to 60% and a control rate\nof 30% by 2022. At such rates, we are optimistic that we can reduce BP-related\ndeaths by 25% and save about 30,000 Filipinos yearly. Through campaigns such as\nthe May Measurement Month, we can further raise awareness about the importance\nof BP screening and other methods such as home BP monitoring, which are vital\nto averting hypertension complications,\u201d notes Dr. Leilani B. Mercado-Asis,\npresident of PSH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nyear, the nationwide BP screening and counseling campaign will be carried out\nby 20 government and non-government agencies. Dr. Alejandro F. Diaz, country\nlead of MMM 2019, is enthusiastic on screening 300,000 Filipinos with OMRON\nHealthcare Philippines as its official equipment partner. The OMRON digital BP\nmonitoring devices are the only ones in the country to be clinically validated\nby PSH for accuracy and precision.\n\nSince MMM\u2019s launch in\n2017, OMRON has donated a total of 4,500 digital BP monitoring devices which\nmeasured the BP of over 400,000 Filipinos. For 2019, the company is donating\n1,000 state-of-the-art digital BP monitoring devices.   \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To get rid of the steady growth of hypertension cases in the country, OMRON Healthcare Philippines, together with the Philippine Society of Hypertension (PSH), the Philippines Heart Association (PHA), and other health partners, spearheaded a campaign that encourages Filipinos to monitor their blood pressure (BP) at home to promote hypertension prevention, detection and control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,2184,20],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-health","tag-omron","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}