1. India Hypertension Control Initiative—Hypertension treatment and blood pressure control in a cohort in 24 sentinel site clinics
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Prabhdeep Kaur, Abhishek Kunwar, Meenakshi Sharma, Jhilam Mitra, Chinmoyee Das, Leimapokpam Swasticharan, Tapas Chakma, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy, Raviteja Dharamsoth, Saurabh Purohit, Sadhana Tayade, Gurinder B Singh, Sailaja Bitragunta, Kiran Durgad, Bidisha Das, Sunil Dar, Rupali Bharadwaj, Chakshu Joshi, Vishwajit Bharadwaj, Suhas Khedkar, Sravan Chenji, Sravan K Reddy, Chintala Sreedhar, Ganeshkumar Parasuraman, Savitha Kasiviswanathan, Vidhya Viswanathan, Pankaj Uike, Pooja Gaigaware, Suniti Yadav, RS Dhaliwal, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Fikru T Tullu, and Balram Bhargava
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hypertension control ,India ,noncommunicable diseases ,raised blood pressure ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Abstract
Abstract The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) is a multi‐partner initiative, implementing and scaling up a public health hypertension control program across India. A cohort of 21,895 adult hypertension patients in 24 IHCI sentinel site facilities in four Indian states (Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana), registered from January 2018 until June 2019 were assessed at baseline and then followed up for blood pressure (BP) control and antihypertensive medication use. Among all registrations, 11 274 (51%) of the patients returned for a follow‐up visit between July 2019 and September 2019. Among patients returning for follow‐up, 26.3% had BP controlled at registration, and 59.8% had BP controlled at follow‐up (p
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- 2021
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