However, since high blood pressure is a risk factor for atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease, death rates from hypertensive heart disease provide an incomplete measure of the burden of disease due to high blood pressure. In 2013 hypertensive heart disease resulted in 1.07 million deaths up from 630,000 in 1990.he definition includes heart failure and other cardiac complications of hypertension when a causal relationship between the heart disease and hypertension is stated or implied on the death certificate.
The most widely accepted figure is that Stalin killed around 20 million. See related links below. But there is no argument, both Hitler and Stalin where ruthless and blood letting rulers of nations, where the people of those nations were just to frightened to do anything it.
A brief summary of the number of dead can be found below: 1  Germany the overall total is given as just under 7.4 million. 2  Soviet soldiers roughly around 8.7 million Soviet soldiers died in World War 2. 3  British 700,000 military casualitits and 60,000 civilian deaths.4  Estimated USSR losses now stand at 26.6 million.t can vary as to were you look, as for example Wikipedia has a great article on how many people died in world war 2 World War2 which leans towards the scary figure of 72 million people.