Raghupathy Anchala|Nanda Kishore Kannuri|Hira Pant|Hassan Khan|Oscar H. Franco|Emanuele Di Angelantonio|Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Hypertension in India
GTx (United States)|Public Health Foundation of India|Institute of Public Health
background regionspecific urban rural parts north east west south india systematic review metaanalysis prevalence awareness control hypertension among indian patients done methods medline web science scopus databases 1950 30 april 2013 searched prevalence burden awareness control blood pressure bp hypertension 140 sbp 90 dbp among indian adults 18 years total 3047 articles 142 included results overall prevalence hypertension india 298 95 confidence interval 267330 significant differences hypertension prevalence noted rural urban parts 276 232320 338 297378 p 005 regional estimates prevalence hypertension follows 145 133157 317 302333 181 169192 211 201220 rural north east west south india 288 269308 345 326365 358 352365 318 304331 urban north east west south india respectively overall estimates prevalence awareness treatment control bp 253 214293 251 170331 107 65150 rural indians 420 352489 376 240512 202 116287 urban indians conclusion 33 urban 25 rural indians hypertensive 25 rural 42 urban indians aware hypertensive status 25 rural 38 urban indians treated hypertension onetenth rural onefifth urban indian hypertensive population bp control