A survey of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in health screening camps of rural central Punjab, Pakistan

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10.1016/j.jegh.2017.01.001How to use a DOI?

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Hypertension; Prevalence; Pakistan

Abstract

Hypertension is a global public health problem with increasing prevalence. There is limited updated information on the prevalence of hypertension in the Pakistani population. This is a cross-sectional study based on data collected during multiple health screening camps held at multiple locations in rural central Punjab, Pakistan in the period between 2008 and 2015. A total of 13,722 patients were included in this study. Crude prevalence of hypertension was 35.1% and age-standardized prevalence was 34.4%. Among patients with hypertension, 62.3% were aware of having high blood pressure; among these patients, 75.3% were already on treatment for hypertension. Blood pressure was controlled in 22.3% of all patients with hypertension. Among those on treatment for hypertension, blood pressure was controlled in 32.3%. Nearly one-third of patients in health screening camps of rural central Punjab had hypertension. Blood pressure control rate was poor among these patients.

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© 2017 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Salman T. Shafi
AU  - Tahir Shafi
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/02/08
TI  - A survey of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in health screening camps of rural central Punjab, Pakistan
JO  - Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
SP  - 135
EP  - 140
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
SN  - 2210-6014
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2017.01.001
DO  - 10.1016/j.jegh.2017.01.001
ID  - Shafi2017
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