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Editorial
. 2017 Jun;19(6):564-568.
doi: 10.1111/jch.12998. Epub 2017 May 30.

The Lancet Commission on hypertension: Addressing the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations

Eoin O'Brien  1
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Editorial

The Lancet Commission on hypertension: Addressing the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations

Eoin O'Brien. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2017 Jun.
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The author reports no conflicts of interest.

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Awareness of hypertension status. In the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, most (53.5%) individuals with hypertension were unaware of their hypertensive status, and only 13% had well‐controlled blood pressure. Reprinted from Olsen et al.1
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