Olukayode, who works with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), made the call on Friday in an interview with the Newsmen in Lagos.
He decried the rate of sudden deaths among Nigerian young adults, saying that most hypertension-related complications were preventable with lifestyle change strategies combined with antihypertensive drug therapy.
He said that young adults should embrace preventive measures and therapeutic lifestyle changes that could help to live healthy life and thereby, curb the prevalence of hypertension.