Table 3.

Barriers to blood pressure control in patients who were aware of the presence of hypertension

Indices	Number of patients (n=429)
Education on hypertension
Counselling from health professionals	21 (4.9%)
Self-education from social media	112 (26.1%)
Knowledge on hypertension
Knowing the optimal level of BP	74 (17.2%)
Knowing two or more complications of hypertension	86 (20.0%)
Access to health care
Difficulties in visiting a cardiologist due to the unavailability of the doctor	126 (29.4%)
Difficulties in visiting a cardiologist due to costs	176 (41.0%)
Medication compliance
Forgetting to take the regular antihypertensive drugs in the past 4 weeks	279 (65.0%)
Omitting prescribed antihypertensive drugs due to the costs	169 (39.4%)