Prevalensi hipertensi pada penduduk berumur 18 tahunke atas di Indonesia tahun 2013berdasarkan

diagnosis tenaga kesehatan sebesar 9,4%, dan pengukuran tekanan darah sebesar 25,8%. Berdasarkan
diagnosis tenaga kesehatan, prevalensi tertinggi terdapat pada Provinsi Sulawesi Utara, sementara itu
berdasarkan pengukuran, prevalensi tertinggi terdapat pada Provinsi Kepulauan Bangka Belitung
sebesar 30,9%. Prevalensi terendah berdasarkan diagnosis tenaga kesehatan maupun
pengukuranterdapat pada Provinsi Papua, yaitu sebesar 16,8%. Hipertensi merupakan salah satu faktor
risiko penyakit kardiovaskuler. Provinsi di Pulau Sulawesi dan Kalimantan merupakan provinsi dengan
prevalensi hipertensi cukup tinggi , sementara itu prevalensi penyakit jantung koroner, gagal jantung
dan stroke di beberapa provinsi di Pulau Sulawesi dan Kalimantan juga cukup tinggi

RISKESDAS. Badan Litbangkes Kementerian Kesehatan RI dan Data Penduduk Sasaran, Pusdatin Kementerian Kesehatan RI.

Sumber : Riset Kesehatan Dasar 2013, Badan Litbangkes Kementerian Kesehatan RI

(AHA). The 2016 Statistical Update is a major source for monitoring cardiovascular health and disease in the
population.

A death rate is a ratio between mortality and population. National death rates are computed per 100,000 population.
Dividing the mortality by the population results in a crude death rate. When summarizing death rates over time or
among populations, we compute age-adjusted death rates. These remove the effects from differences in the age
distribution of the population over time and among population groups. The year 2000 is the standard year used for
age-adjustment.

WHO Juni 2016 (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs317/en/)

CVDs are the number 1 cause of death globally: more people die annually from CVDs than from any other
cause.
An estimated 17.5 million people died from CVDs in 2012, representing 31% of all global deaths. Of these
deaths, an estimated 7.4 million were due to coronary heart disease and 6.7 million were due to stroke .
Over three quarters of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries.
Out of the 16 million deaths under the age of 70 due to noncommunicable diseases, 82% are in low and middle
income countries and 37% are caused by CVDs.
Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors such as tobacco use,
unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol using population-wide strategies.
People with cardiovascular disease or who are at high cardiovascular risk (due to the presence of one or more
risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia or already established disease) need early detection
and management using counselling and medicines, as appropriate.