Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115mmHg, 1990-2015

MH Forouzanfar; P Liu; GA Roth; M Ng; S Biryukov; L Marczak; L Alexander; K Estep; KH Abate; TF Akinyemiju; R Ali; N Alvis-Guzman; P Azzopardi; A Banerjee; T Bärnighausen; A Basu; T Bekele; DA Bennett; S Biadgilign; F Catalá-López; VL Feigin; JC Fernandes; F Fischer; AA Gebru; P Gona; R Gupta; GJ Hankey; JB Jonas; SE Judd; YH Khang; A Khosravi; YJ Kim; RW Kimokoti; Y Kokubo; D Kolte; A Lopez; PA Lotufo; R Malekzadeh; YA Melaku; GA Mensah; A Misganaw; AH Mokdad; AE Moran; H Nawaz; B Neal; FN Ngalesoni; T Ohkubo; F Pourmalek; A Rafay; RK Rai; D Rojas-Rueda; UK Sampson; IS Santos; M Sawhney; AE Schutte; SG Sepanlou; GT Shifa; I Shiue; BA Tedla; AG Thrift; M Tonelli; T Truelsen; N Tsilimparis; KN Ukwaja; OA Uthman; T Vasankari; N Venketasubramanian; VV Vlassov; T Vos; R Westerman; LL Yan; Y Yano; N Yonemoto; M El Sayed Zaki; CJL Murray

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Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115mmHg, 1990-2015

MH Forouzanfar, P Liu, GA Roth, M Ng, S Biryukov, L Marczak, L Alexander, K Estep, KH Abate, TF Akinyemiju, R Ali, N Alvis-Guzman, P Azzopardi, A Banerjee, T Bärnighausen, A Basu, T Bekele, DA Bennett, S Biadgilign, F Catalá-López Show all

JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association | AMER MEDICAL ASSOC | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.19043

Abstract

IMPORTANCE Elevated systolic blood (SBP) pressure is a leading global health risk. Quantifying the levels of SBP is important to guide prevention policies and interventions. OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between SBP of at least 110 to 115mmHg and SBP of 140mmHg or higher and the burden of different causes of death and disability by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015. DESIGN A comparative risk assessment of health loss related to SBP. Estimated distribution of SBP was based on 844 studies from 154 countries (published 1980-2015) of 8.69 million participants. Spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression was used to generate estimates of mean SBP and adjusted varianc..

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