GSK worldwide
- Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer
- We are a research-based pharmaceutical company
- We are the only pharmaceutical company to tackle the three "priority" diseases identified by the World Health Organization: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
- Our business employs over 100,000 people in 117 countries
- We make almost four billion packs of medicines and healthcare products every year
- Over 15,000 people work in our research teams to discover new medicines
- We screen about 65 million compounds every year in our search for new medicines
- We supply one quarter of the world's vaccines and by the end of February 2007 we had 23 vaccines in clinical development
- In 2006 we donated 155 million albendazole tablets to help eliminate lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), making almost 600 million treatments in total
- In 2006 our global community investment was £302 million, 3.9% of profit before tax
Learn about hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher.
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