The paper provides recommendations and guidelines for health care professionals on the use of renal denervation in the treatment of people with hypertension.
The Selangor government’s health screening programme, Selangor Saring, not only provides iFOBT, cervical swabs, and mammograms, among others, but also covers the cost of further diagnostic tests; the SELangkah app can store one’s lifetime health record.
The government’s 12MP simply focuses on awareness programmes and cancer screenings without mentioning increased treatment, even though patients with chronic diseases worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the National Diabetes Registry Report, 80.4% and 74.3% of adult diabetes patients in Malaysia had hypertension and dyslipidemia respectively in 2019.
The prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol, as well as mental illness, was seen highest in unpaid workers and homemakers, as compared to the self-employed, government or semi-government employees, and private sector employees.