May Measurement Month 2018: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Ecuador
| Autor: | Maria Ramirez, Silvia Caceres, Neil R Poulter, Thomas Beaney, Anca Chis Ster, Yan Duarte, Rubén Peñaherrera, Elisa Avila, Jesenia Bravo, Cecilia Mora, Eric Hidalgo, Ernesto Peñaherrera, Jose Villalba, Fabricio Arteaga |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Antihypertensive agents business.industry Blood Pressure Articles Treatment Blood pressure Cardiovascular System & Hematology Hypertension screening Emergency medicine Hypertension Medicine AcademicSubjects/MED00200 Ecuador Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology |
| Zdroj: | European Heart Journal Supplements : Journal of the European Society of Cardiology H55 H53 |
| ISSN: | 1554-2815 1520-765X |
| Popis: | Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a growing burden worldwide, leading to over 10 million deaths each year. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) aimed at raising awareness of high BP and to act as a temporary solution to the lack of screening programmes worldwide. An opportunistic cross-sectional survey of volunteers aged ≥18 was carried out in May 2018. A volunteer cross-sectional survey was carried out in May 2017 across 33 health centres. Blood pressure measurement, the definition of hypertension (HTN) (mean of the 2nd and 3rd BP measurement ≥ 140/90 mmHg or who were medicated for high BP), and statistical analysis followed the standard MMM protocol. In total, 11 922 individuals (53.7% female) were screened during MMM18. After multiple imputation, 4563 (38.3%) had HTN. Of individuals not receiving antihypertensive medication, 1302 (15.0%) were hypertensive. Of individuals receiving antihypertensive medication, 933 (28.6%) had uncontrolled BP. MMM18 was the largest BP screening campaign done in Ecuador. Hypertension was detected in 38.4% of those screened and almost 4 out of 10 were either not on treatment or were not controlled to the BP goal. These results suggest that appropriate screening can help to identify a significant number of people with high BP. These data should attract the attention of doctors and health care system in Ecuador. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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