Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
  • 2 South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 47500 Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Sleman Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 4 Chililab Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Department of Biostatistics, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Viet Nam
  • 5 Vadu Health and Demographic Surveillance System, KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India
  • 6 Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 7 Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
  • 8 Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
Bull World Health Organ, 2022 Oct 01;100(10):601-609.
PMID: 36188011 DOI: 10.2471/BLT.22.287807

Abstract

Objective: To determine the proportion of adults with hypertension who reported: (i) having been previously diagnosed with hypertension; (ii) taking blood pressure-lowering medication; and (iii) having achieved hypertension control, in five health and demographic surveillance system sites across five countries in Asia.

Methods: Data were collected during household surveys conducted between 2016 and 2020 in the five surveillance sites in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Viet Nam. We defined hypertension as systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg or taking blood pressure-lowering medication. We defined hypertension control as systolic blood pressure

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