To combat global mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), at the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in 2013 Member States developed a Global Plan of Action, for 2013–2020 setting global targets that include achieving a 25% relative reduction in the prevalence of RBP or contain the prevalence of RBP, according to national circumstances by 2025, proposed to leading a 33% of the relative reduction by 2030, using 2010 as a baseline. The value of BP, in particular of systolic BP (SBP), is included in the risk charts for estimating the probability of incurring or dying from a cardiovascular event, both for the strong aetiological significance and for its simplicity and low cost. 1 The main contributors to RBP are unhealthy eating behaviours-among which sodium excess-physical inactivity, excess of weight, smoking habit, harmful use of alcohol and exposure to persistent stress. Raised blood pressure (RBP) is a condition constituting a leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide, since it significantly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, dementia and blindness.
