Ghana: 70% of Mallam market traders suffer various stages of high blood pressure

 Over 70 per cent of traders at the Mallam Market have various states of high blood pressure but are unaware, a study by Knoxxi Health Ghana has revealed.

The study revealed that only 28.3 per cent of them had normal blood pressure, and the remaining 71.7 per cent, mainly women, had between stage one to crisis stage hypertension.

It said 31.9 per cent of the traders had stage one hypertension, 22.9 per cent had stage two hyper­tension, 14.9 per cent had reached elevated…