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. 2019 Jul-Aug;71(4):309-313.
doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2019.09.012. Epub 2019 Sep 18.

Prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults: Results from the great India blood pressure survey

Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Geevar Zachariah, Kartik Gupta, J Shivkumar Rao, P P Mohanan, K Venugopal, Santosh Sateesh, Rishi Sethi, Dharmendra Jain, Neil Bardolei, Kalaivani Mani, Tanya Singh Kakar, Bharathraj Kidambi, Sudha Bhushan, Sunil K Verma, Balram Bhargava, Ambuj Roy, Shyam S Kothari, Rajeev Gupta, Sandeep Bansal, Sanjay Sood, Ranjit K Nath, Sanjay Tyagi, Mohit D Gupta, M P Girish, I P S Kalra, G S Wander, Satish Gupta, Subroto Mandal, Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan, Geetha Subramanyam, Debabatra Roy, Sibananda Datta, Kajal Ganguly, S N Routray, S S Mishra, B P Singh, B B Bharti, Mrinal K Das, Soumitra Kumar, K C Goswami, V K Bahl, Sarat Chandra, Amal Banerjee, Santanu Guha, P K Deb, H K Chopra, Prakash Deedwania, Ashok Seth; CSI-Great India BP Campaign Investigators
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Prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults: Results from the great India blood pressure survey

Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan et al. Indian Heart J. 2019 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Objective: Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There is limited data on hypertension prevalence in India. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults.

Methods: A national level survey was conducted with fixed one-day blood pressure measurement camps across 24 states and union territories of India. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure (BP) ≥140 mmHg or a diastolic BP ≥90 mmHg or on treatment for hypertension. The prevalence was age- and gender-standardized according to the 2011 census population of India.

Results: Blood pressure was recorded for 180,335 participants (33.2% women; mean age 40.6 ± 14.9 years). Among them, 8,898 (4.9%), 99,791 (55.3%), 35,694 (11.9%), 23,084 (12.8%), 9,989 (5.5%), and 2,878 (1.6%) participants were of the age group 18-19, 20-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, and ≥ 75 years, respectively. Overall prevalence of hypertension was 30.7% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 30.5, 30.9) and the prevalence among women was 23.7% (95% CI: 23.3, 24). Prevalence adjusted for 2011 census population and the WHO reference population was 29.7% and 32.8%, respectively.

Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of hypertension, with almost one in every three Indian adult affected.

Keywords: Hypertension; India; Prevalence.

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Prevalence of hypertension, according to age group and gender.
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A. Mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) across age groups. B. Mean diastolic blood pressure (DBP) across age groups.
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