Prabhdeep Kaur, Manikandanesan Sakthivel, Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy, Padmaja Jogewar, Sandeep S Gill, Abhishek Kunwar, Meenakshi Sharma, Anupam Khungar Pathni, Kiran Durgad, Swagata Kumar Sahoo, Amol Wankhede, Navneet Kumar, Vishwajit Bharadwaj, Bidisha Das, Tejpalsinh Chavan, Suhas Khedkar, Lalit Sarode, Sampada D Bangar, Ashish Krishna, Roopa Shivashankar, Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Pragati Pragya, Balram Bhargava
BACKGROUND: Hypertension treatment coverage is low in India. A stepwise simple treatment protocol is one of the strategies to improve hypertension treatment in primary care. We estimated the effectiveness of various protocol steps to achieve blood pressure (BP) control in public sector health facilities in Punjab and Maharashtra, India, where the India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) was implemented. METHODS: We analyzed the records of people enrolled for hypertension treatment and follow-up under IHCI between January 2018 and December 2021 in public sector primary and secondary care facilities across 23 districts from two states...
2024: Global Heart