Global health partners (i.e. those who generate evidence) and local governments need to work together to bridge the gap between evidence and policy. Figure 1: Forest plot of difference in systolic and diastolic blood pressure change in included studies....
One particular error in manual BP measurement, the failure to detect the presence of an auscultatory gap, results in a falsely low estimate of systolic BP [1,2,5]. With an auscultatory gap, the Korotkoff sounds temporarily become inaudible between phase 2 and phase 3 for a few to more ...
Participants were requested to bring all original medication packages they had used in the previous 7 days and all Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) codes were documented.21 Hypertension was defined as the mean systolic BP (SBP) ⩾ 140 mm Hg, or mean diastolic BP (DBP) ⩾ 90 mm Hg,...