Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

Forouzanfar, Mohammad, Liu, Patrick, Roth, Gregory, Ng, Marie, Biryukov, Stan, Marczak, Laurie, Alexander, Lily, Estep, Kara, Hassen Abate, Kalkidan, Akinyemiju, Tomi F., Ali, Raghib, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Azzopardi, Peter, Banerjee, Amitava, Bärnighausen, Till, Basu, Arindam, Bekele, Tolesa, Bennett, Derrick, Biadgilign, Sibhatu, Catalá-López, Ferrán, Feigin, Valery, Fernandes, João C., Fischer, Florian, Gebru, Alemseged Aregay, Gona, Philimon, Gupta, Rajeev, Hankey, Graeme, Jonas, Jost, Judd, Suzanne, Khang, Young-Ho, Khosravi, Ardeshir, Kim, Yunjin, Kimokoti, Ruth, Kokubo, Yoshihiro, Kolte, Dhaval, Lopez, Alan, Lotufo, Paulo, Malekzadeh, Reza, Melaku, Yohannes Adama, Mensah, George, Misganaw, Awoke, Mokdad, Ali, Moran, Andrew, Nawaz, Haseeb, Neal, Bruce, Ngalesoni, Frida Namnyak, Ohkubo, Takayoshi, Pourmalek, Farshad, Rafay, Anwar, Rai, Rajesh Kumar, Rojas-Rueda, David, Sampson, Uchechukwu, Santos, Itamar, Sawhney, Monika, Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth, Sepanlou, Sadaf, Shifa, Girma Temam, Shiue, Ivy, Tedla, Bemnet Amare, Thrift, Amanda, Tonelli, Marcello, Truelsen, Thomas, Tsilimparis, Nikolaos, Ukwaja, Kingsley Nnanna, Uthman, Olalekan, Vasankari, Tommi, Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy, Vlassov, Vasiliy Victorovich, Vos, Theo, Westerman, Ronny, Yan, Lijing, Yano, Yuichiro, Yonemoto, Naohiro, Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed and Murray, Christopher (2017) Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015. JAMA, 317 (2). p. 165. ISSN 0098-7484

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Abstract

Importance
Elevated systolic blood (SBP) pressure is a leading global health risk. Quantifying the levels of SBP is important to guide prevention policies and interventions.

Objective
To estimate the association between SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg and SBP of 140 mm Hg or higher and the burden of different causes of death and disability by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015.

Design
A comparative risk assessment of health loss related to SBP. Estimated distribution of SBP was based on 844 studies from 154 countries (published 1980-2015) of 8.69 million participants. Spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression was used to generate estimates of mean SBP and adjusted variance for each age, sex, country, and year. Diseases with sufficient evidence for a causal relationship with high SBP (eg, ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke, and hemorrhagic stroke) were included in the primary analysis.

Main Outcomes and Measures
Mean SBP level, cause-specific deaths, and health burden related to SBP (≥110-115 mm Hg and also ≥140 mm Hg) by age, sex, country, and year.

Results
Between 1990-2015, the rate of SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg increased from 73 119 (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 67 949-78 241) to 81 373 (95% UI, 76 814-85 770) per 100 000, and SBP of 140 mm Hg or higher increased from 17 307 (95% UI, 17 117-17 492) to 20 526 (95% UI, 20 283-20 746) per 100 000. The estimated annual death rate per 100 000 associated with SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg increased from 135.6 (95% UI, 122.4-148.1) to 145.2 (95% UI 130.3-159.9) and the rate for SBP of 140 mm Hg or higher increased from 97.9 (95% UI, 87.5-108.1) to 106.3 (95% UI, 94.6-118.1). Loss of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) associated with SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg increased from 148 million (95% UI, 134-162 million) to 211 million (95% UI, 193-231 million), and for SBP of 140 mm Hg or higher, the loss increased from 95.9 million (95% UI, 87.0-104.9 million) to 143.0 million (95% UI, 130.2-157.0 million). The largest numbers of SBP-related deaths were caused by ischemic heart disease (4.9 million [95% UI, 4.0-5.7 million]; 54.5%), hemorrhagic stroke (2.0 million [95% UI, 1.6-2.3 million]; 58.3%), and ischemic stroke (1.5 million [95% UI, 1.2-1.8 million]; 50.0%). In 2015, China, India, Russia, Indonesia, and the United States accounted for more than half of the global DALYs related to SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg.

Conclusions and Relevance
In international surveys, although there is uncertainty in some estimates, the rate of elevated SBP (≥110-115 and ≥140 mm Hg) increased substantially between 1990 and 2015, and DALYs and deaths associated with elevated SBP also increased. Projections based on this sample suggest that in 2015, an estimated 3.5 billion adults had SBP of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg and 874 million adults had SBP of 140 mm Hg or higher

Item Type:	Article
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Nursing, Midwifery and Health
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2017 12:31
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 15:28
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/29534

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