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.
Joseph Stalin 1 (1879-1953) Joseph Stalin, infamous for his campaigns of terror, was totalitarian dictator of the USSR from 1941 until his death in 1953. Stalin's policy of state-organized industrialization turned his country into a industrial and military power second only to the USA. From Stalin, Joseph. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001. Joseph Stalin was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953. [By many accounts, Stalin,] more than any other