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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2019 Mar;73(3):594–601. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.11995

Table 1.

Country-years and number of observations by country income classification. Numbers in parentheses represent the number of studies from that country in that particular year.

High Income (n = 65)
Country # of Studies Years of Treatment Data
Australia 1 1994
Belgium 1 1992
Canada 5 1992, 1995, 2002, 2009(2)
Czech Republic 1 2008
Denmark 3 1992, 1998, 2004
Finland 4 1992(3), 2005
France 2 1998, 2006
Germany 6 1992, 1995(3), 2001(2)
Greece 6 1997, 1998, 2001(2), 2002, 2004
Italy 2 1994(2)
Japan 1 1995
Korea, Rep. 2 2001(2)
Kuwait 1 2008
Netherlands 3 2003, 2004(2)
New Zealand 1 1994
Portugal 2 2003(2)
Saudi Arabia 1 2005
Spain 3 1990, 1996, 2004
Sweden 3 1994, 1996
Switzerland 1 1993
United Kingdom 8 1995, 1998(2), 2003(4), 2006,
United States of America 7 1990, 1994, 2000(2), 2003, 2004, 2005
United Arab Emirates 1 2009
Upper Middle Income (n = 26)
Country # of Studies Years of Treatment Data
Argentina 1 2009
Barbados 1 1996
Botswana 1 2007
Brazil 1 2009
Chile 3 2004(2)
China 1 2010
Colombia 1 2009
Czech Republic 3 2001(3)
Gabon 1 2003
Iran, Islamic Rep. 1 2009
Korea, Rep. 1 2000
Lebanon 1 2008
Malaysia 4 1996(2), 2004
Mexico 3 1993, 2000, 2002
Romania 1 2005
St. Lucia 1 1996
Turkey 1 2009
Lower Middle Income (n = 30)
Country # of Studies Years of Treatment Data
China 8 1999, 2001(4), 2002(2), 2009
Egypt, Arab Rep. 1 2005
Fiji 1 2002
Iran, Islamic Rep. 1 2005
Iraq 2 2003, 2006
Maldives 1 2004
Mongolia 1 2009
Russian Federation 2 2005(2)
Thailand 2 2003, 2004
Tunisia 1 2001
Turkey 4 1995, 1999, 2003(2)
Venezuela, RB 1 1996
India 3 2007(2), 2009
Pakistan 1 2009
Micronesia 1 2002
Low Income (n = 33)
Country # of Studies Years of Treatment Data
Bangladesh 1 2009
Benin 1 2007
Cambodia 1 2010
Cameroon 1 2004
China 3 1993, 1994, 1998
Egypt, Arab Rep. 1 1991
Eritrea 1 2004
Ghana 5 2001, 2002, 2004(3)
India 6 1999, 2000, 2002(2), 2004, 2005
Lao PDR 1 2008
Madagascar 1 2005
Malawi 1 2009
Mauritania 1 2007
Mongolia 1 2006
Mozambique 1 2005
Nepal 2 2003, 2005
Nigeria 1 2003
Sierra Leone 1 2009
Solomon Islands 1 2006
Vietnam 1 2008
Zambia 1 2008