Prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults: Results from the great India blood pressure survey

Objective: Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There is limited data on hypertension prevalence in India. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults. Methods: A national level survey was conducted wit...

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Main Authors: Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Geevar Zachariah, Kartik Gupta, J. Shivkumar Rao, P.P. Mohanan, K. Venugopal, Santosh Sateesh, Rishi Sethi, Dharmendra Jain, Neil Bardolei, Kalaivani Mani, Tanya Singh Kakar, Bharathraj Kidambi, Sudha Bhushan, Sunil K. Verma, Balram Bhargava, Ambuj Roy, Shyam S. Kothari, Rajeev Gupta, Sandeep Bansal, Sanjay Sood, Ranjit K. Nath, Sanjay Tyagi, Mohit D. Gupta, M.P. Girish, I.P.S. Kalra, G.S. Wander, Satish Gupta, Subroto Mandal, Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan, Geetha Subramanyam, Debabatra Roy, Sibananda Datta, Kajal Ganguly, S.N. Routray, S.S. Mishra, B.P. Singh, B.B. Bharti, Mrinal K. Das, Soumitra Kumar, K.C. Goswami, V.K. Bahl, Sarat Chandra, Amal Banerjee, Santanu Guha, P.K. Deb, H.K. Chopra, Prakash Deedwania, Ashok Seth, A.K. Sinha, H.S. Isser, Neeraj Pandit, Vijay Trehan, Ramandeep Ahuja, S.C. Manchanda, Arun Mohanty, Peeyush Jain, Sameer Shrivastava, B.S. Sarang, H.S. Ratti, G. Bala Sahib, Rakesh Gupta, S.K. Agarwal, Amit, George Koshy, Tiny Nair, N. Shyam, Anil Roby, Raju George, Sudhaya Kumar, Abdul Kader, Mathew Abraham, Sunitha Viswanathan, A. Jabir, Jaideep Menon, Govindan Unni, Cibu Mathew, PB Jayagopal Sajeev, P.K. Ashokan, Asharaf, A.K. Pancholia, A.K. Gupta, Rupam Das, Dinesh Aggarwal, Amit Malviya, Syed Manzor Ali, Parag Barward, Navreet Singh, Yashbir S. Tomar, Davinder Chaddha, Sameer Dani, Chirayu Vyas, Kinjal Bhatt, Shrenik Doshi, Chandra Bhan Meena, Geetha Subramanyam Subramanyam, Ajit Mullasari Muruganandam, Varun Narain, R.K. Saran, Praveen Jain, Sudeep Kumar, P.K. Goel, M.K. Das, Sarat Chandra Amal Banerjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
Series:Indian Heart Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483219304201