Researchers have shown that hypertension, once rare in traditional African societies, is
rapidly becoming a major public health problem (1). In Africa, the shift of many people from
rural to urban areas has rendered hypertension an epidemic and with it comes “the burden
of civilization”(2). The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is now characterized by increasing
longevity and westernization and “hypertension has now changed from a relative rarity to a
major problem”. Furthermore, the anticipated increase in the burden of hypertension is likely …

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