India lacks adequate community level data for hypertension control: Lancet

More than 50 per cent of patients in India are unaware of their high blood pressure, finds a study published in Lancet Regional Health Journal

India needs better community level data to understand the problem of Hypertension, finds a recent study published in the Lancet Regional Health Journal. 
 

The study titled "Hypertension control rate in India: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level non-interventional studies, 2001-2022" has highlighted that more than 75 per cent of hypertensive patients in India had their blood pressure out of control. Researchers have raised alarm on increasing prevalence of hypertension especially among the poor, young adults, and more than 50 per cent of patients unaware of their high blood pressure in India, and have called for a national program "to revisit