@article{982ed708c77e4fec923b33e229676c63,
title = "May Measurement Month 2019 The Global Blood Pressure Screening Campaign of the International Society of Hypertension",
abstract = "Elevated blood pressure remains the single biggest risk factor contributing to the global burden of disease and mortality. May Measurement Month is an annual global screening campaign aiming to improve awareness of blood pressure at the individual and population level. Adults (>= 18 years) recruited through opportunistic sampling were screened at sites in 92 countries during May 2019. Ideally, 3 blood pressure readings were measured for each participant, and data on lifestyle factors and comorbidities were collected. Hypertension was defined as a systolic blood pressure >= 140 mm Hg, or a diastolic blood pressure >= 90 mm Hg (mean of the second and third readings) or taking antihypertensive medication. When necessary, multiple imputation was used to estimate participants' mean blood pressure. Mixed-effects models were used to evaluate associations between blood pressure and participant characteristics. Of 1 508 130 screenees 482 273 (32.0%) had never had a blood pressure measurement before and 513 337 (34.0%) had hypertension, of whom 58.7% were aware, and 54.7% were on antihypertensive medication. Of those on medication, 57.8% were controlled to",
keywords = "adults, awareness, blood pressure, hypertension, risk factor, screening, treatment",
author = "Thomas Beaney and Schutte, {Aletta E.} and Stergiou, {George S.} and Claudio Borghi and Dylan Burger and Fadi Charchar and Suzie Cro and Alejandro Diaz and Albertino Damasceno and Walter Espeche and Jose, {Arun Pulikkottil} and Nadia Khan and Yoshihiro Kokubo and Anuj Maheshwari and Marin, {Marcos J.} and Arun More and Dinesh Neupane and Peter Nilsson and Mansi Patil and Dorairaj Prabhakaran and Agustin Ramirez and Pablo Rodriguez and Markus Schlaich and Steckelings, {Ulrike M.} and Maciej Tomaszewski and Thomas Unger and Richard Wainford and Jiguang Wang and Bryan Williams and Poulter, {Neil R.} and {MMM Investigators}",
note = "Funding Information: Our sincere thanks to Omron for the donations of blood pressure (BP) devices, World Hypertension League (WHL), and Professor Daniel T. Lackland for endorsing the extension of World Hypertension Day to May Measurement Month (MMM) and to Judith Bunn (MMM Project Manager) and Ranjit Rayat (Editing Assistant) for their superb dedicated efforts and to all volunteer staff and participants. Funding Information: May Measurement Month (MMM) is an initiative of the International Society of Hypertension. MMM 2019 was generously supported by Servier through the Institut la Conference Hippocrate. As a supporter of the study, Servier had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The first and corresponding authors had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors. Hypertension is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.14874",
language = "English",
volume = "76",
pages = "333--341",
journal = "Hypertension",
issn = "0194-911X",
publisher = "LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS",
number = "2",
}