TABLE 2.

Worldwide and regional numbers with hypertension and percentages aware, on treatment and controlled (of all 642 057 participants)

Region	Number with hypertension	Percentage with hypertension	Percentage of hypertensive participants aware	Percentage of hypertensive participants on medication	Percentage of those on medication with controlled BP	Percentage of all hypertensive participants controlled
East Asia	59 133	26.6%	32.4%	30.6%	61.5%	18.8%
Americas	60 475	38.6%	72.9%	59.5%	55.0%	32.7%
South-east Asia and Australasia	36 866	41.1%	49.6%	45.1%	46.8%	21.1%
Sub-Saharan Africa	27 951	37.8%	66.7%	63.6%	51.9%	33.0%
South Asia	21 366	35.6%	64.6%	55.6%	57.7%	32.1%
Europe	19 518	50.9%	71.2%	66.0%	49.1%	32.4%
Northern Africa and Middle East	573	50.0%	69.9%	65.4%	39.7%	26.0%
Worldwide	225 882	35.2%	56.8%	50.3%	53.9%	27.1%

Confidence intervals for the percentages are provided in the Supplementary Appendix Table A.