May measurement month 2018: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from the UK and the Republic of Ireland
| Autor: | Carolina Barciela, Adrian J B Brady, Franco Cappuccio, Mahfoudha Al Shezawi, Tricia Tay, Thomas Beaney, Linsay McCallum, Maciej Tomaszewski, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Neil R Poulter, Eoin O'Brien, Aletta E. Schutte, John R. Cockcroft, James Keitley, Eamon Dolan, Barry J. McDonnell |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Overweight 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health Control medicine AcademicSubjects/MED00200 030212 general & internal medicine 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology Disease burden business.industry Public health Articles medicine.disease Obesity Treatment Blood pressure Cardiovascular System & Hematology Hypertension Screening Population Risk medicine.symptom Underweight Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | H134 H132 European Heart Journal Supplements : Journal of the European Society of Cardiology |
| Popis: | Raised blood pressure (BP) was the biggest contributor to the global burden of disease in 2017, with lack of awareness and adequate control of BP identified as the main drivers of this disease burden. In 2017, an opportunistic BP screening and awareness campaign called May Measurement Month (MMM) in the UK and Republic of Ireland (RoI) highlighted that levels of undiagnosed hypertension and uncontrolled hypertension in the community screened were approximately 23% and 40%, respectively. MMM18 was undertaken to further the campaign’s efforts to increase awareness and create an evidence base of population risk associated with high BP. MMM18 BP screenings were conducted in the community at places of worship, supermarkets, GP surgeries, workplaces, community pharmacies, gyms, and various other public places. A total of 5000 volunteers, aged 47.3 (±17.2) years, 60% female were screened. Of all 5000 individuals screened, 1716 (34.3%) were hypertensive, of which only 51.3% were aware of their condition, 42.8% on antihypertensive treatment, and only 51.5% of those on medication controlled to target BP of |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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