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.
Hiroaki, Kuromiya. The Voices of the Dead: Stalinâs Great Terror in the 1930s. New Haven: Tale University Press, 2007. This book reconstructs the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands who were killed during Stalinâs Purge through information provided by the declassified Soviet archives.he following picture shows Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, head of the NKVD during much of the Great Purge, crushing a reptilian creature with three humand heads and a Swastika tail, âenemiesâ of the Soviet Union. His period as head of the NKVD is sometimes called âYezhovshchina,â or âthe Yezhov era.â.