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that's done by the WHO,
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the World Health Organization in Geneva.
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What they did was
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these investigators looked at the number of deaths from stroke
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and the number of deaths from hypertensive diseases,
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and compared high income countries with low and middle income countries.
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Here are the number of deaths from stroke.
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Quite a difference between those different types of countries.
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Then the number of deaths from hypertensive disease look like this.
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Again, orders of magnitude difference.
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So these countries do have to worry about these diseases.
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They're happening in very large numbers