60% OF ARMENIANS HAVE EXCESS WEIGHT AND 26% - ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION YEREVAN, JUNE 3. ARMINFO. According to recent investigations conducted by the Armenian Medical Association (AMA), 26% of Armenian citizens have arterial hypertension. Chief of the AMA Parunak Zelveyan informed at today's press-conference that the investigations were conducted in Yerevan, 800 people of various ages were questioned. According to the questioning, 60% of respondents had the excess weight, 90% noted that they do not realize or do not take into consideration the information about the harm of cholesterol excess in blood. 50% of questioned hypertensive patients noted that they received medical treatment only a week. In Zalveyan's opinion, short treatment is worse than not receive treatment at all. Zalveyan noted that Armenia's government should take measures for precautions of hypertension and to enter to the state order patients with arterial hypertension as most of them give up the treatment because of the inaccessibility of drug prices.
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