GSK worldwide
- We are one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
- We employ over 99,000 people in over 100 countries
- Around 12,800 people work in our research teams to discover new medicines.
- Our vaccines are included in immunisation campaigns in 182 countries worldwide
- Every second, we distribute more than 35 doses of Vaccines.
- Every minute, more than 1100 prescriptions are written for GSK products
- Every hour we spend more than £300,000 (US$562,000) to find new medicines
- January 2008 marked the tenth anniversary of our programme to help eliminate lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). Since the start of this programme we have donated more than 1.4 billion albendazole tablets to countries affected by LF
- Our global community investment and charitable donations were £163 million in 2009
Learn about hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher.
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