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Medicinal Plants Used for Hypertension

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Hypertension is a cardiovascular disorder that is currently a major problem in both less developed and developed countries, noted as the fourth major contributor resulting in premature death (Talha et al. 2011). It affects all humans irrespective of age, with high blood pressure levels recorded as above 140/90 mmHg, known as “a silent killer,” a noncommunicable disease, and a major contributor to mortality (Maghrani et al. 2005; Gavras 2009; Seeger et al. 2013). Nearly 57% of the deaths are due to strokes and 24% due to coronary artery disease. Nearly 970 million people globally show hypertension (Mucumbitsi et al. 2017). In Asia, 33% of all adults above 45 years of age and 18% of all adults are affected by hypertension. In some countries, every third person at the age of 40 years is suffering from hypertension (Saleem et al. 2010).

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    Khafsa Malik

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar & Shazia Sultana

  3. Department of Botany & Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

    Münir Öztürk

  4. Biology Department, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey

    Volkan Altay

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Malik, K., Ahmad, M., Öztürk, M., Altay, V., Zafar, M., Sultana, S. (2021). Medicinal Plants Used for Hypertension. In: Herbals of Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85222-1_2

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