Key result
Hypertension affects ~33% of Nigerian adults, requiring routine screening and team-based care to improve control.
Why the study?
Hypertension is a growing health crisis in Nigeria that often damages major organs without symptoms, while awareness, treatment, and control remain poor.
Highlights the growing hypertension crisis in Nigeria and emphasizes the need for routine screening, primary care strengthening, and standardized treatment protocols.
May support team-based protocols in Nigerian primary care; leaves open national scalability and long-term outcomes.
Hypertension is a growing health crisis in Nigeria, affecting about one in three adults, while awareness, treatment and control remain poor. Persistent high blood pressure damages the heart, brain, kidneys, eyes and blood vessels, often without symptoms. Major risk factors include excess salt, obesity, physical inactivity, tobacco, alcohol, chronic stress and poor sleep. Routine screening is therefore essential, especially in primary care. Family physicians are well placed to detect hypertension early, provide lifestyle counselling, prescribe and monitor treatment, support adherence and coordinate referral when complications arise. Nigerian evidence shows that standardised protocols, team-based care, fixed-dose combinations and structured follow-up can improve control. National action should expand affordable medicines, strengthen primary healthcare, improve public education and encourage regular blood pressure checks, healthier diets, physical activity, smoking cessation and consistent treatment across all Nigerian communities.
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H. Samuel (2026) conducted a review in Hypertension. Hypertension affects about one in three adults in Nigeria, necessitating routine screening, standardized protocols, and team-based primary care to improve poor awareness and control rates.
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