Hypertension affects approximately 50 million individuals in the US and approximately 1 billion worldwide.
The estimated market share of anti-hypertensive agents is $30 billion by 2016. This is one of the deadliest non communicable diseases in the world leading to around 9.4 million deaths occurred in every year.
It is said that in our country there are 200 million patients have been suffering from hypertension but only half of them were aware of their illness and out of them only 30% are taking medications under constant medical care. Hypertension is one of the major causes of cardio vascular system (CVS) disease, kidney failure and mortality in all over the world.