People often don’t take hypertension or high blood pressure seriously. This is perhaps because this disease shows no symptoms in the early stages and is fairly common among Indians. Asian Indians are in general more susceptible to cardiovascular ailments including hypertension due to genetic predisposition. Dr Vijay Surase our expert cardiologist tells us why we should worry more about high blood pressure Most people like to live in denial about hypertension. They see their parents and other older relatives live with the disease and think will also be able to cope fine. However more and more people are falling prey