Table 4.
Blood pressure and hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control by study quality score and sample size
| 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) | |||||||
| Quality score | ||||||||
| <15 | 131.6 (124.9–138.2) | 80.7 (77.9–83.5) | 32.3 (26.2–38.4) | 32.9 (23.9–41.9) | 23.3 (20.0–26.6) | 29.4 (23.4–35.3) | 14.8 (9.6–20.0) | 9.4 (3.6–15.2) |
| 15–19 | 125.4 (119.7–131.1) | 79.0 (76.6–81.4) | 28.7 (25.3–32.1) | 31.5 (28.3–34.7) | 23.6 (20.9–26.2) | 17.8 (11.9–23.7) | 15.7 (3.8–27.6) | 8.3 (4.1–12.5) |
| Sample size | ||||||||
| <800 | 127.7 (117.6–137.7) | 80.6 (76.8–84.4) | 31.9 (25.3–38.5) | 32.4 (18.8–46.0) | 19.2 (15.9–22.5) | 19.8 (2.0–37.6) | 20.6 (15.4–25.9) | 6.1 (3.0–9.2) |
| 800–1999 | 130.4 (122.4–138.4) | 79.8 (77.1–82.5) | 32.0 (24.7–39.3) | 34.3 (27.5–41.1) | 24.7 (21.5–28.0) | 27.9 (18.6–37.1) | 13.8 (5.0–22.6) | 11.6 (9.6–13.5) |
| ≥2000 | 129.6 (121.1–138.1) | 79.5 (74.2–84.9) | 27.9 (19.9–36.0) | 30.7 (22.1–39.3) | 24.8 (21.3–28.3) | 22.9 (13.9–31.8) | 14.8 (6.8–22.9) | 6.5 (5.0–8.0) |
CI, confidence interval.