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May measurement month 2018: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Taiwan.
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Author(s)
Lin, Hung-Ju
Pan, Heng-Yu
Beaney, Thomas
Ster, Anca Chis
Poulter, Neil R
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
To raise awareness of hypertension in the general population, we have held an annual community-based nationwide campaign for blood pressure (BP) screening. The 2018 May Measurement Month (MMM) campaign in Taiwan followed a similar protocol as the 2017 MMM campaign. We recruited adults aged 20 years and older at about 800 community pharmacies across Taiwan. After a 10-min seated rest, volunteers-consisting of community pharmacists-took three BP readings using automated BP devices. The means of the 2nd and 3rd BP readings were used as the screening BP estimates. Hypertension was defined as current use of antihypertensive medications, or the screening BP of ≥140/90 mmHg. Of the 15 365 enrolled participants with a mean age of 56.8 ± 16.4 years, 53.3% were women. After imputation, we found 48.1% of the individuals had hypertension. Among participants with hypertension, 83.7% were aware, 55.0% had controlled BP, and 81.3% were medically treated, of whom 67.7% had controlled BP (<140/90 mmHg). In contrast to the global results, our results showed that the participants with diabetes mellitus, prior myocardial infarction, or stroke had higher BP than those without these comorbidities. The annual campaign experience enables us to establish a feasible approach to raising awareness and to assessing the management of hypertension in the general population. Whether the regular annual BP screening campaign makes a lasting effect on hypertension-related disease burden awaits verification.
Date Issued
2020-08
Date Acceptance
2020-08-01
Citation
European Heart Journal Supplements, 2020, 22 (Suppl H), pp.H125-H127
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/84492
URL
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartjsupp/article/22/Supplement_H/H125/5898741
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/suaa087
ISSN
1520-765X
Publisher
European Society of Cardiology
Start Page
H125
End Page
H127
Journal / Book Title
European Heart Journal Supplements
Volume
22
Issue
Suppl H
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2020.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
License URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884491
PII: suaa087
Subjects
Blood pressure
Control
Hypertension
Pharmacy
Screening
Treatment
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2020-08-28
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