Table 3.

Defined groups of participants for each bar of the cascade of care for HT^a.

Bars of the cascade of care for HT	Definitions	Questions extracted for analysis
1. Prevalence of the target population living with HT	Participants having systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg [12] or	Measurement of blood pressure (mean of the second and third readings)
	Participants reporting use of drugs for HT, irrespective of their blood pressure values	Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health worker that you have HT?
2. Number of the target population with HT ever tested for HT	Classified patients with HT having had a blood pressure measured in the last 3 years	Have you ever had your blood pressure measured in the last 3 years?
3. Number of those tested ever diagnosed for HT	Tested patients with HT reporting ever being told by a doctor or other health worker as having HT	Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health worker that you have HT?
4. Number of those diagnosed in care	Diagnosed patients with HT reporting getting treatment/care for their conditions at least once in the past 12 months	Did you get treatment/care for your HT condition in the past 12 months?
5. Number of those in care receiving treatment	In-care patients with HT reporting using drugs for HT in the past 2 weeks or	Are you currently receiving any of the following treatment/advice for your HT condition prescribed by a doctor or other health worker? Drugs (medication) that you have taken in the past 2 weeks
	In-care patients with HT reporting following advice to lose weight, stop smoking, do physical exercise, and reduce salt intake	Are you currently receiving any of the following treatment/advice for your HT condition prescribed by a doctor or other health worker? Advice to reduce salt intake and advice to lose weight and advice to stop smoking and advice to start or do more physical exercise
6. Number of those receiving treatment being under control	In-treatment patients with HT having systolic blood pressure <140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure <90 mmHg [12]	Measurement of blood pressure (mean of the second and third readings) for the known HT

^aHT: hypertension.