Planet Pressure Cooker: How Hypertension Became Humanity’s Quietest Global Arms Race
Hypertension: The World’s Quietest Arms Race by R. J. Valente, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker GENEVA—While diplomats trade barbs over missile trajectories in Eastern Europe, a far stealthier escalation is taking place inside every third adult on the planet. Hypertension—blood pressure high enough to power a small espresso machine—now affects 1.28 billion people, according to the…