Table 2.
Blood pressure and hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control by demographic characteristics
| 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) | |||||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 131.9 (127.4–136.4) | 80.4 (79.2–81.7) | 34.3 (30.0–38.6) | 38.0 (30.8–45.3) | 23.8 (19.2–28.4) | 19.5 (14.8–24.2) | 12.8 (7.3–18.2) | 7.4 (3.7–11.2) |
| Female | 127.6 (123.2–131.9) | 79.4 (77.6–81.2) | 31.3 (26.5–36.1) | 35.6 (27.2–44.1) | 21.3 (18.1–24.5) | 27.1 (19.8–34.4) | 16.5 (10.3–22.6) | 10.3 (7.0–13.5) |
| Age group (in years) | ||||||||
| < 35 | – | – | 24.0 (20.4–27.6) | – | – | 8.0 (4.6–11.4) | 3.5 (1.2–5.8) | 1.2 (0.1–2.6) |
| 35–44 | – | – | 35.3 (30.6–40.0) | – | – | 16.1 (12.0–20.1) | 9.5 (6.3–12.7) | 4.3 (0.5–8.0) |
| 45–54 | – | – | 54.4 (50.3–58.5) | – | – | 28.5 (22.4–34.6) | 17.9 (14.6–21.2) | 9.7 (0.7–18.6) |
| ≥ 55 | – | – | 66.4 (46.7–86.2) | – | – | 37.2 (12.9–61.5) | 25.2 (14.3–36.1) | 14.4 (8.5–20.2) |
| Ethnic group | ||||||||
| Bamileke | 135.7 (132.3–139.1) | 84.6 (82.0–87.3) | 56.6 (49.4–63.8) | – | – | – | – | – |
| Bantu | 119.0 (116.3–121.7) | 78.0 (75.9–80.1) | 28.0 (20.8–35.2) | – | – | – | – | – |
| Fulbe | 131.1 (125.3–136.9) | 80.2 (79.5–80.9) | 35.6 (29.4–41.7) | 35.6 (29.4–41.7) | 27.5 (23.8–31.1) | 18.6 (14.5–22.7) | 5.4 (3.0–7.8) | – |
| Mbororo | 127.9 (126.4–129.4) | 80.4 (79.5–81.3) | 30.6 (27.6–33.6) | 30.6 (27.6–33.6) | 24.2 (21.4–27.0) | – | – | – |
| Pygmy | 107.0 (105.1–108.9) | 71.0 (69.2–72.8) | 3.3 (0.4–6.2) | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mixed | 129.7 (124.9–132.0) | 80.2 (77.6–82.7) | 29.9 (25.8–34.1) | 31.8 (26.5–37.0) | 22.9 (20.7–25.1) | 25.2 (19.1–31.2) | 17.1 (12.5–21.7) | 8.8 (5.7–11.9) |
CI, confidence interval.