From 1975 to 2015, the global number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million to 1.13 billion, with the highest levels shifting from high-income to low-income countries.
Population
19.1 million adults aged 18 years and older from 1479 population-based measurement studies across 200…
Design
Meta-analysis
Key result
From 1975 to 2015, the global number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million to 1.13 billion, with the highest levels shifting from high-income to low-income countries.
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Overview
Requires reallocation of hypertension control resources to low- and middle-income countries; extends prior regional data to a global epidemiologic transition.
Study Design
Type
Meta-Analysis (n=19,100,000)
Multicenter
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Population
19.1 million adults aged ≥18 years from 1479 population-based studies across 200 countries, assessed for worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015.
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Outcome
Worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure (defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg) from 1975 to 2015surrogate
Over the past four decades, the burden of raised blood pressure has shifted from high-income countries to low- and middle-income countries, reaching 1.13 billion adults globally in 2015.
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Zhou et al. (2016) conducted a meta-analysis in Raised blood pressure (n=19,100,000). Time (1975 to 2015) was evaluated on Trends in mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and prevalence of raised blood pressure. From 1975 to 2015, the global number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million to 1.13 billion, with the highest levels shifting from high-income to low-income countries.