| ACC/AHA | American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association |
| BIC | Bayesian information criterion |
| BP | Blood pressure |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| DBP | Diastolic blood pressure |
| G.6 | Guttman Lambda 6 |
| HBCTS | Hill–Bone Compliance to High Blood Pressure Therapy Scale |
| HBP | High blood pressure |
| ICMJE | International Committee of Medical Journal Editors |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| ISCED | International Standard Classification of Education |
| ISPOR | International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research |
| MAP | Mean arterial pressure |
| MPR | Medication possession ratio |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| PDC | Proportion of days covered |
| RMSEA | Root Mean Square Error of Approximation |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| SBP | Systolic blood pressure |
| SD | Standard deviation |