Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from 1·7 million adults in a population-based screening study (China PEACE Million Persons Project)

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 390; no. 10112; pp. 2549 - 2558
• Main Authors: Lu, Jiapeng, Lu, Yuan, Wang, Xiaochen, Li, Xinyue, Linderman, George C, Wu, Chaoqun, Cheng, Xiuyuan, Mu, Lin, Zhang, Haibo, Liu, Jiamin, Su, Meng, Zhao, Hongyu, Spatz, Erica S, Spertus, John A, Masoudi, Frederick A, Krumholz, Harlan M, Jiang, Lixin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 09.12.2017; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adults; Blood pressure; Drug dosages; Hypertension; Medical screening; Medical treatment; Mortality; Population studies; Population-based studies; Prescription drugs; Public health; China

Hypertension is common in China and its prevalence is rising, yet it remains inadequately controlled. Few studies have the capacity to characterise the epidemiology and management of hypertension across many heterogeneous subgroups. We did a study of the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control...