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ReviewCurrent hypertension reports2020

Innovative Implementation Strategies for Hypertension Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a Narrative Review.

Tim Mercer, Shanti Nulu, Rajesh Vedanthan

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Review in Current hypertension reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tim MercerDepartment of Population Health, Division of Global Health, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, 1601 Trinity St., Bldg. B, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. tim.mercer@austin.utexas.edu.
Shanti NuluDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA.
Rajesh VedanthanDepartment of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis review summarizes the most recent and innovative implementation strategies for hypertension control in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). RECENT

findingsImplementation strategies from Latin America, Africa, and Asia were organized across three levels: community, health system, and policy/population. Multicomponent interventions involving task-shifting strategies, with or without mobile health tools, had the most supporting evidence, with policy or population-level interventions having the least, focused only on salt reduction with mixed results. More research is needed to better understand how context affects intervention implementation. There is an emerging evidence base for implementation strategies for hypertension control and CVD risk reduction in LMICs at the community and health system levels, but further research is needed to determine the most effective policy and population-level strategies. How to best account for local context in adapting and implementing these evidence-based interventions in LMICs still remains largely unknown. Accelerating the translation of this implementation research into policy and practice is imperative to improve health and save lives globally.

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Developing CountriesHypertensionHumansPovertyRisk Reduction BehaviorCardiovascular diseaseCommunityHealth systemHypertensionImplementation researchLow- and middle-income countries (LMICs)Policy

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