Implications of the New American College of Cardiology Guidelines for Hypertension Prevalence in India

Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy; Pascal Geldsetzer; Lindsay M Jaacks; Dorairaj Prabhakaran

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.3511

Implications of the New American College of Cardiology Guidelines for Hypertension Prevalence in India

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Oct 1;178(10):1416-1418. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.3511.

Authors

Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy¹, Pascal Geldsetzer², Lindsay M Jaacks², Dorairaj Prabhakaran¹

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India.
² Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study analyzes whether the lowered blood pressure threshold for hypertension in the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines vs the JNC7 guidelines are associated with diagnosis prevalence of hypertension among adults in India.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Blood Pressure / physiology*
Cardiology / standards*
Female
Humans
Hypertension / epidemiology*
Hypertension / physiopathology
India / epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Prevalence
Young Adult