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May Measurement Month 2017: an analysis of blood pressure screening results in South Africa-Sub-Saharan Africa
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a growing burden worldwide, leading to over 10 million deaths each year. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) aimed at raising ...
May Measurement Month 2017: results of 39 national blood pressure screening programmes
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Raised blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor responsible for mortality worldwide. Despite this, the majority of people with hypertension are unaware of having it, are untreated, or are on treatment but uncontrolled. ...
Is the cardiovascular health of South Africans today comparable with African Americans 45 years ago?
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
Objectives: Hypertension occurs frequently among
black populations around the world. In the United
States (US) health system, interventions since the 1960s
resulted in improvements in hypertension awareness,
management ...
The African prospective study on the early detection and identification of cardiovascular disease and hypertension (African-PREDICT): design, recruitment and initial examination
(Sage, 2019)
Background: Globally hypertension is stabilising, but in sub-Saharan Africa the incidence of hypertension remains on an
increase. Although this might be attributed to poor healthcare and ineffective antihypertensive ...
May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Aims
Raised blood pressure (BP) is the biggest contributor to mortality and disease burden worldwide and fewer than half of those with hypertension are aware of it. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global campaign set up ...
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 activity and the 4G/5G polymorphism are prospectively associated with blood pressure and hypertension status
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
Objectives:
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) has consistently shown positive associations with blood pressure (BP). Whether elevations in PAI-1 levels precede or result from raised BP is still under debate and ...
Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are associated with blood pressure and hypertension over 10-years in black South African adults undergoing nutritional transition
(MDPI, 2019)
Nutritional transition in Africa is linked with increased blood pressure (BP). We examined 10-year fatty acid status and longitudinal associations between individual long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), BP and ...
Optimizing observer performance of clinic blood pressure measurement: a position statement from the Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
High blood pressure (BP) is a highly prevalent modifiable cause of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and death. Accurate BP measurement is critical, given that a 5-mmHg measurement error may lead to incorrect hypertension ...