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SUBMITTER: McDonnell BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7455270 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McDonnell Barry J BJ Beaney Thomas T Al Shezawi Mahfoudha M Cockcroft John R JR Barciela Carolina C Tay Tricia T Keitley James J Brady Adrian J B AJB Padmanabhan Sandosh S McCallum Linsay L Dolan Eamon E O'Brien Eoin E Tomaszewski Maciej M Schutte Aletta E AE Poulter Neil R NR Cappuccio Franco P FP
European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology 20200828 Suppl H
Raised blood pressure (BP) was the biggest contributor to the global burden of disease in 2017, with lack of awareness and adequate control of BP identified as the main drivers of this disease burden. In 2017, an opportunistic BP screening and awareness campaign called May Measurement Month (MMM) in the UK and Republic of Ireland (RoI) highlighted that levels of undiagnosed hypertension and uncontrolled hypertension in the community screened were approximately 23% and 40%, respectively. MMM18 wa ...[more]