There is a large burden of undetected hypertension in rural Uganda, highlighting the need to strengthen health services and utilize existing research infrastructure for data generation.
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May support screening initiatives in rural low-resource settings; leaves open whether service strengthening improves control or outcomes.
The use of established research infrastructure, for example, community HIV surveys, can help to generate the population-based data on the prevalence of hypertension and related risk factors needed to inform planning and implementation of effective prevention and control strategies in low-income countries. There is an urgent need to strengthen health services in responding effectively to the large burden of undetected hypertension.
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Maher et al. (2011) studied this question.
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