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.
Between the start of the Soviet Union and Stalin's death, it is estimated that this many people were worked to death or simply executed in this system of prison labor camps. This number includes millions who were sent to gulags during WW2 so would overlap with the 20-30 million Soviet citizens who died during WW2.