What are the patient and healthcare provider barriers to hypertension awareness, treatment, and follow-up?
A wide range of barriers exist for hypertension control, highlighting the need for targeted multi-faceted interventions and more rigorous studies in diverse settings.
This review identified a wide range of barriers facing patients and health care providers pursuing hypertension control, indicating the need for targeted multi-faceted interventions. More methodologically rigorous studies that encompass the range of barriers and that include low- and middle-income countries are required in order to inform policies to improve hypertension control.
Khatib et al. (Wed,) studied this question.