RESEARCH ARTICLE
Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in Ghanaian population: Evidence from the Ghana demographic and health survey Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade ID1*, Sandra Boatemaa2, Mawuli Komla Kushitor3
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1 Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom, 2 Centre for Complex Systems in Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbocsh, South Africa, 3 Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana *
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Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Sanuade OA, Boatemaa S, Kushitor MK (2018) Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in Ghanaian population: Evidence from the Ghana demographic and health survey. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0205985. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205985 Editor: Bamidele O. Tayo, Loyola University Chicago, UNITED STATES Received: April 23, 2018 Accepted: October 4, 2018 Published: November 7, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Sanuade et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: The data underlying the results presented in the study are available from the DHS Program Office, 530 Gaither Road, Suite 500, Rockville, MD, USA. The data can be accessed at https://dhsprogram.com/data/dataset/ Ghana_Standard-DHS_2014.cfm?flag=1. Funding: OAS is supported by Wellcome Trust [106534] through the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, and SB is supported by the National Research Foundation [29673] through the Department of Science and Technology, Centre of
Hypertension is a major cause of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality in Ghana. This study examines the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among Ghanaian aged 15–49 years. This cross-sectional study retrieved data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). The sample, comprising of 13,247 respondents aged 15–49 years, was analysed using descriptive statistics, Chi-Square tests, independent sample t-tests and binary logistic regressions. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 13.0% (12.1% for males and 13.4% for females). Among respondents who had hypertension, 45.6% were aware of their hypertension status; 40.5% were treating the condition while 23.8% had their blood pressure controlled (BP
