TY - JOUR
T1 - May Measurement Month 2019
T2 - An analysis of blood pressure screening results from Colombia
AU - Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio
AU - Lopez-Lopez, Jose P.
AU - Otero, Johanna
AU - Alarcon-Ariza, Natalia
AU - Mogollon-Zehr, Margarita
AU - Camacho, Paul Anthony
AU - Sanchez, Gregorio
AU - Narvaez, Claudia
AU - Casanova, Maria
AU - Arcos, Edgar
AU - Aroca, Gustavo
AU - Quintero, Adalberto
AU - Beaney, Thomas
AU - Partington, Giles
AU - Poulter, Neil R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - Hypertension awareness and control is poor in low- and middle-income countries. Thus, implementing strategies to increase hypertension detection is needed. Colombia participated as one of the 92 countries involved in the third campaign of the May Measurement Month in 2019. Blood pressure (BP) was measured in 48 324 volunteers from 13 departments in Colombia. In total, 27.9% individuals were identified with hypertension. Of those with hypertension, 63.7% were aware of their condition, 60.0% were on antihypertensive medication, and 38.4% had controlled BP. These results showed low levels of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in this sample of subjects volunteered to participate, suggest the urgent necessity of implementing programmes to improve the diagnosis and management of hypertension in Colombia.
AB - Hypertension awareness and control is poor in low- and middle-income countries. Thus, implementing strategies to increase hypertension detection is needed. Colombia participated as one of the 92 countries involved in the third campaign of the May Measurement Month in 2019. Blood pressure (BP) was measured in 48 324 volunteers from 13 departments in Colombia. In total, 27.9% individuals were identified with hypertension. Of those with hypertension, 63.7% were aware of their condition, 60.0% were on antihypertensive medication, and 38.4% had controlled BP. These results showed low levels of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in this sample of subjects volunteered to participate, suggest the urgent necessity of implementing programmes to improve the diagnosis and management of hypertension in Colombia.
KW - Blood pressure
KW - Control
KW - Hypertension
KW - Screening
KW - Treatment
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U2 - 10.1093/eurheartj/suab039
DO - 10.1093/eurheartj/suab039
M3 - Artículo Científico
AN - SCOPUS:85133630094
SN - 1520-765X
VL - 23
SP - B46-B48
JO - European Heart Journal, Supplement
JF - European Heart Journal, Supplement
IS - Sb
ER -