article Open AccessTop 1% cited
Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in national surveys from England, the USA and Canada, and correlation with stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality: a cross-sectional study
BMJ Open · 2013 · Vol. 3(8) · pp. e003423–e003423
Michel Joffres✉(Simon Fraser University)Emanuela Falaschetti(Imperial College London)Cathleen Gillespie(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Cynthia Robitaille(Public Health Agency of Canada)Fleetwood Loustalot(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Neil R Poulter(Imperial College London)Finlay A. McAlister(University of Alberta Hospital)Helen Johansen(University of Ottawa)O Baclic(Public Health Agency of Canada)Norm R.C. Campbell(Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta)
Abstract
While the current prevention efforts in England should result in future-improved figures, especially at younger ages, these data still show important gaps in the management of hypertension in these countries, with consequences on stroke and IHD mortality.
Blood Pressure and Hypertension StudiesNutritional Studies and DietSodium Intake and HealthMedicineCross-sectional studyIschaemic heart diseaseIschaemic strokeStroke (engine)EpidemiologyDiseasePublic healthEnvironmental healthGerontology
Funding
- Pfizer
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- University of Alberta
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Public Health Agency
- Alberta Innovates
- Servier
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Citations
465
FWCI
26.90
field-weighted impact
References
28
Percentile
100%
vs. same field & year
Citations per year
References
Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies
The Lancet · 2002 · 10,173 citations
Differences in prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension between developing and developed countries
Journal of Hypertension · 2009 · 638 citations
Worldwide prevalence of hypertension
Journal of Hypertension · 2003 · 1,141 citations
Use of blood pressure lowering drugs in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of 147 randomised trials in the context of expectations from prospective epidemiological studies
BMJ · 2009 · 2,765 citations
Global burden of hypertension: analysis of worldwide data
The Lancet · 2005 · 7,668 citations
Citation Network
How this paper connects to the literature. Drag to explore, click any node to open that paper.