Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control of Hypertension in Nigeria: Data from a Nationwide Survey 2017

Figure 1. Awareness (vertical lines), treatment (solid) and control (dots) of hypertension across the six geopolitical zones and the overall population. Awareness includes subjects previously diagnosed of hypertension. Treatment includes hypertensives patients on antihypertensive medication and control includes hypertensive patients receiving treatment whose systolic and diastolic BP are less than 140 and 90 mmHg respectively.

Figure 2. Hypertension Care Continuum Cascade. All hypertensive subjects whether diagnosed or undiagnosed is represented as 100%. Of these, 14.2% have never been screened for hypertension, 34.9% has been screened but not diagnosed, 36.2% have been diagnosed but not receiving treatment and 65.4% were treated but their blood pressure was still uncontrolled.