A 2017 nationwide survey reveals a high burden of hypertension in Nigeria with a narrowing rural-urban gap, necessitating primary care-focused public health interventions.
Our results suggest a large burden of hypertension in Nigeria and a closing up of the rural-urban gap previously reported. This calls for a change in public health policies anchored on a primary health care system to address the emerging disease burden occasioned by hypertension.
Odili et al. (Fri,) studied this question.