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SynthesisJournal of hypertension2014

Hypertension in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, awareness, and control of hypertension.

Raghupathy Anchala, Nanda K Kannuri, Hira Pant, Hassan Khan, Oscar H Franco, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Dorairaj Prabhakaran

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Synthesis in Journal of hypertension, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 401 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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401 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 752 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Raghupathy AnchalaaDepartment of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, UK bPublic Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, India cDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands dCentre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India.
Nanda K Kannuri
Hira Pant
Hassan Khan
Oscar H Franco
Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Department of Public Health · USPublic Health Foundation · USCentre for Chronic Disease Control · INErasmus University Rotterdam · NLInstitute of Public Health · IN

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/08/014/24067Medical Research Council MR/L003120/1Wellcome Trust 084754
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA region-specific (urban and rural parts of north, east, west, and south India) systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence, awareness, and control of hypertension among Indian patients have not been done before.

methodsMedline, Web of Science, and Scopus databases from 1950 to 30 April 2013 were searched for 'prevalence, burden, awareness, and control of blood pressure (BP) or hypertension (≥140 SBP and or ≥90 DBP) among Indian adults' (≥18 years). Of the total 3047 articles, 142 were included.

resultsOverall prevalence for hypertension in India was 29.8% (95% confidence interval: 26.7-33.0). Significant differences in hypertension prevalence were noted between rural and urban parts [27.6% (23.2-32.0) and 33.8% (29.7-37.8); P = 0.05]. Regional estimates for the prevalence of hypertension were as follows: 14.5% (13.3-15.7), 31.7% (30.2-33.3), 18.1% (16.9-19.2), and 21.1% (20.1-22.0) for rural north, east, west, and south India; and 28.8% (26.9-30.8), 34.5% (32.6-36.5), 35.8% (35.2-36.5), and 31.8% (30.4-33.1) for urban north, east, west, and south India, respectively. Overall estimates for the prevalence of awareness, treatment, and control of BP were 25.3% (21.4-29.3), 25.1% (17.0-33.1), and 10.7% (6.5-15.0) for rural Indians; and 42.0% (35.2-48.9), 37.6% (24.0-51.2), and 20.2% (11.6-28.7) for urban Indians.

conclusionAbout 33% urban and 25% rural Indians are hypertensive. Of these, 25% rural and 42% urban Indians are aware of their hypertensive status. Only 25% rural and 38% of urban Indians are being treated for hypertension. One-tenth of rural and one-fifth of urban Indian hypertensive population have their BP under control.

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