Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
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Hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa: the current profile, recent advances, gaps..
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Recent global and regional reports consistently confirm the high and increasing prevalence of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with poor detection, treatment, and control rates. This narrative review summarises the burden of hypertension in SSA and recent findings from community-based hypertension management strategies. We further outline prominent risk factors according to recent data and associated underlying mechanisms for hypertension development. An extensive review of literature showed that most countries have reported on the prevalence of hypertension during 2017–2023, despite limitations linked to the lack of nationally representative studies, heterogeneity of sampling and data collection methods.
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