Table 1.
Search method in PUBMED
| Search | Search terms |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hypertension [tw] OR high blood pressure [tw] OR systolic hypertension [tw] OR diastolic hypertension [tw] |
| 2 | Hypertension [MeSH terms] |
| 3 | # 1 OR # 2 |
| 4 | (Child [tw] OR Child [MeSH terms] Children [tw] OR childhood [tw] OR adolescent [MeSH terms] OR adolescent [tw] OR adolescent* [tw] OR pediatric [tw] OR teens [tw] OR teen [tw] OR Teenage* [tw] OR Youth* [tw] OR Infan* [tw]) |
| 5 | # 3 AND # 4 |
| 6 | (((((“Africa"[MeSH] OR Africa* [tw] OR Algeria[tw] OR Angola[tw] OR Benin[tw] OR Botswana[tw] OR “Burkina Faso"[tw] OR Burundi [tw] OR Cameroon [tw] OR “Canary Islands” [tw] OR “Cape Verde” [tw] OR “Central African Republic” [tw] OR Chad [tw] OR Comoros [tw] OR Congo [tw] OR “Democratic Republic of Congo” [tw] OR Djibouti [tw] OR Egypt [tw] OR “Equatorial Guinea” [tw] OR Eritrea [tw] OR Ethiopia [tw] OR Gabon [tw] OR Gambia [tw] OR Ghana [tw] OR Guinea [tw] OR “Guinea Bissau” [tw] OR “Ivory Coast” [tw] OR “Cote d'Ivoire” [tw] OR Jamahiriya [tw] OR Jamahiryia [tw] OR Kenya [tw] OR Lesotho [tw] OR Liberia [tw] OR Libya [tw] OR Libia [tw] OR Madagascar [tw] OR Malawi [tw] OR Mali [tw] OR Mauritania [tw] OR Mauritius [tw] OR Morocco [tw] OR Mozambique [tw] OR Mocambique [tw] OR Namibia [tw] OR Niger [tw] OR Nigeria [tw] OR Principe [tw] OR Reunion [tw] OR Rwanda [tw] OR “Sao Tome” [tw] OR Senegal [tw] OR Seychelles [tw] OR “Sierra Leone” [tw] OR Somalia [tw] OR “South Africa” [tw] OR “St Helena” [tw] OR Sudan [tw] OR Swaziland [tw] OR Tanzania [tw] OR Togo [tw] OR Tunisia [tw] OR Uganda [tw] OR “Western Sahara” [tw] OR Zaire [tw] OR Zambia [tw] OR Zimbabwe [tw] OR “Central Africa” [tw] OR “Central African” [tw] OR “West Africa” [tw] OR “West African” [tw] OR “Western Africa” [tw] OR “Western African” [tw] OR “East Africa” [tw] OR “East African” [tw] OR “Eastern Africa” [tw] OR “Eastern African” [tw] OR “North Africa” [tw] OR “North African” [tw] OR “Northern Africa” [tw] OR “Northern African” [tw] OR “South African” [tw] OR “Southern Africa” [tw] OR “Southern African” [tw] OR “sub Saharan Africa” [tw] OR “sub Saharan African” [tw] OR “subSaharan Africa” [tw] OR “subSaharan African” [tw]) NOT (“guinea pig” [tw] OR “guinea pigs” [tw] OR “aspergillus niger” [tw]))))) |
| 7 | # 5 AND # 6 |
| 8 | #7 Limits: 1985/01/01 to 2015/04/30 and studies done in Humans, in English and French |