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. 2017 Dec 17;2(4):e000443. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000443

Table 1.

Hypertension management characteristics of the sample by country and country income grouping

Country by country income group No. of communities No. of households No. of hypertensive participants Hypertensive participants
No. detected (%) No. treated (%) No. controlled (%)
HIC and
UMIC
250 21 903 25 429 13 155 (51.7) 12 231 (48.1) 4243 (16.7)
Canada 75 3541 3908 2157 (55.2) 2112 (54.0) 968 (24.8)
Sweden 24 1668 1923 696 (36.2) 608 (31.6) 169 (8.8)
UAE 3 409 477 247 (51.8) 240 (50.3) 63 (13.2)
Saudi Arabia 19 453 515 319 (61.9) 309 (60.0) 169 (32.8)
Argentina 21 3148 3809 2073 (54.4) 1924 (50.5) 569 (14.9)
Brazil 14 2480 2938 1896 (64.5) 1838 (62.6) 685 (23.3)
Chile 5 1248 1530 890 (58.2) 798 (52.2) 332 (21.7)
Malaysia 34 4842 5509 2648 (48.1) 2272 (41.2) 690 (12.5)
Poland 4 1111 1368 739 (54.0) 706 (51.6) 151 (11.0)
South Africa 12 1682 1857 580 (31.2) 616 (33.2) 117 (6.3)
Turkey 39 1321 1595 910 (57.1) 808 (50.7) 330 (20.7)
LMIC and LIC 406 30 265 35 800 15 296 (42.7) 12 596 (35.2) 3830 (10.7)
China 110 16 184 19 471 8114 (41.7) 6557 (33.7) 1556 (8.0)
Philippines 2 678 855 466 (54.5) 394 (46.1) 115 (13.5)
Colombia 60 2538 2817 1461 (51.9) 1309 (46.5) 484 (17.2)
Iran 20 1411 1598 841 (52.6) 816 (51.1) 293 (18.3)
OPT 39 583 591 347 (58.7) 345 (58.4) 130 (22.0)
Bangladesh 56 897 1080 261 (24.2) 174 (16.1) 43 (4.0)
India 95 6777 8090 3332 (41.2) 2708 (33.5) 1095 (13.5)
Pakistan 4 373 435 206 (47.4) 162 (37.2) 76 (17.5)
Zimbabwe 3 419 453 223 (49.2) 119 (26.3) 36 (7.9)
Tanzania 17 405 410 45 (11.0) 12 (2.9) 2 (0.5)

HIC, high-income countries; LIC, low-income countries; LMIC, lower-middle-income countries; OPT, Occupied Palestinian Territories; UAE, United Arab Emirates; UMIC, upper-middle-income countries.