Table 5.

Gender-dependent adherence to hypertension criteria

Criteria	Adherence (%) [95% Cl]
	Men	Women
	n=123	n=102
High level of adherence to hypertension criteria
• Prescribing of antihypertensive drug(s) in hypertensive diabetic patient	100	100
• No co-prescribing of thiazide + beta blocker in treated hypertension	100	100
• Patient diagnosed with hypertension has a treatment plan that does NOT include oral contraceptives, corticosteroids, NSAIDs, high sodium containing products, sympathomimetics, monoamine oxidase inhibitors	96.9 [92.6-100]	84.6* [74.8-94.5]
• Addition of a calcium channel blocker (CCB) and/or diuretic in patients whose blood pressure remains uncontrolled with ACE-Is or ARBs	89.7 [80.2-99.3]	87.8 [78.6-96.9]
• Prescribing of an ACE-I or ARB in hypertensive patient	85.9 [74–94.5]	87.1 [78.8-95.4]
Low level of adherence to hypertension criteria
• Achievement of blood pressure target in patients on aspirin	34.1 [20.1-48.1]	23.1 [6.9-39.3]
• Patient with treated hypertension and with co-existing kidney, eye or cerebrovascular damage and/or with two or more features of MetS has achieved blood pressure control of ≤130/80 mmHg	16.4 [7.1-25.7]	10.2 [2.5-17.9]

* P < 0.05.