Table 1

Hypertension management characteristics of the sample by country and country income grouping

Country by country income groupNo. of communitiesNo. of householdsNo. of hypertensive participantsHypertensive participants
No. detected (%)No. treated (%)No. controlled (%)
HIC and
UMIC
25021 90325 42913 155(51.7)12 231(48.1)4243(16.7)
Canada75354139082157(55.2)2112(54.0)968(24.8)
Sweden2416681923696(36.2)608(31.6)169(8.8)
UAE3409477247(51.8)240(50.3)63(13.2)
Saudi Arabia19453515319(61.9)309(60.0)169(32.8)
Argentina21314838092073(54.4)1924(50.5)569(14.9)
Brazil14248029381896(64.5)1838(62.6)685(23.3)
Chile512481530890(58.2)798(52.2)332(21.7)
Malaysia34484255092648(48.1)2272(41.2)690(12.5)
Poland411111368739(54.0)706(51.6)151(11.0)
South Africa1216821857580(31.2)616(33.2)117(6.3)
Turkey3913211595910(57.1)808(50.7)330(20.7)
LMIC and LIC40630 26535 80015 296(42.7)12 596(35.2)3830(10.7)
China11016 18419 4718114(41.7)6557(33.7)1556(8.0)
Philippines2678855466(54.5)394(46.1)115(13.5)
Colombia60253828171461(51.9)1309(46.5)484(17.2)
Iran2014111598841(52.6)816(51.1)293(18.3)
OPT39583591347(58.7)345(58.4)130(22.0)
Bangladesh568971080261(24.2)174(16.1)43(4.0)
India95677780903332(41.2)2708(33.5)1095(13.5)
Pakistan4373435206(47.4)162(37.2)76(17.5)
Zimbabwe3419453223(49.2)119(26.3)36(7.9)
Tanzania1740541045(11.0)12(2.9)2(0.5)
  • HIC, high-income countries; LIC, low-income countries; LMIC, lower-middle-income countries; OPT, Occupied Palestinian Territories; UAE, United Arab Emirates; UMIC, upper-middle-income countries.