Table 1.
Blood pressure and hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in Cameroon: estimates and changes between 1994–2010 and 2011–2018
| Blood pressure (mmHg) | Hypertension (%) | |||||||
| SBP (95% CI) | DBP (95% CI) | Prevalence (95% CI) | Prevalence in studies with suitable age group data | Awareness (95% CI) | Treatment (95% CI) | Control (95% CI) | ||
| Crude (95% CI) | Age-standardized (95% CI) | |||||||
| Overall | 129.2 (125.0–133.3) | 80.0 (77.9–82.1) | 30.9 (27.0–34.8) | 32.4 (27.6–37.3) | 23.5 (21.4–25.6) | 24.4 (18.9–30.0) | 15.1 (10.6–19.6) | 8.8 (5.7–11.9) |
| Period of data collection | ||||||||
| 1994–2010 | 128.5 (122.5–134.4) | 80.2 (76.8–83.7) | 29.6 (24.1–35.1) | 29.4 (21.3–37.5) | 21.7 (19.4–24.1) | 31.6 (21.0–42.3) | 16.0 (5.5–26.5) | 10.4 (7.5–13.3) |
| 2011–2018 | 129.6 (125.3–133.9) | 79.9 (78.4–81.5) | 32.1 (27.2–37.1) | 35.0 (28.5–41.4) | 25.0 (21.0–28.9) | 20.8 (14.0–27.7) | 14.8 (7.8–21.8) | 8.3 (4.4–12.3) |
CI, confidence interval.