Percentage of individuals with raised blood pressure under control (at population-level)

Indicator

Definition

Percentage of controlled hypertension at the population level (<140/90mmHg) among persons 18 years of age and older

Calculation

Numerator: total number of persons with controlled hypertension (persons with a measured systolic blood pressure of < 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure of < 90 mmHg)
Denominator: total number of persons with hypertension (defined as persons who have measured systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg, or who report having been diagnosed with hypertension by a health professional, or who report currently taking medication for the treatment of high blood pressure

Reference

The STEPS Survey (2016)

Provincial data

Percentage of individuals with raised blood pressure under control (at population-level)
by Province

Raw data

wdt_ID	Place	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Yazd	84.9	79.6	89.0
2	Semnan	84.1	78.7	88.3
3	Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari	80.1	76.8	83.0
4	Ardabil	79.5	76.3	82.3
5	Alborz	79.1	74.4	83.0
6	Tehran	78.9	76.2	81.4
7	Guilan	76.2	73.6	78.6
8	Hamadan	74.9	70.1	79.1
9	Mazandaran	74.9	71.3	78.1
10	Lorestan	72.0	66.7	76.7
11	Markazi	71.9	65.2	77.8
12	Golestan	71.0	66.1	75.5
13	Country	70.5	65.8	74.8
14	Bushehr	70.5	67.8	73.0
15	Kurdistan	69.7	64.2	74.7
16	Razavi Khorasan	69.4	68.7	70.1
17	North Khorasan	69.0	65.7	72.2
18	Isfahan	68.7	63.6	73.4
19	Ilam	68.0	66.2	69.7
20	West Azerbaijan	66.5	61.8	71.0
21	Khuzestan	65.7	60.5	70.5
22	Kerman	65.1	59.9	70.0
23	East Azerbaijan	63.9	59.9	67.6
24	Kermanshah	63.1	56.3	69.4
25	Sistan & Baluchestan	62.9	59.3	66.3
26	Hormozgan	60.9	54.9	66.6
27	fars	57.6	52.8	62.4
28	South Khorasan	57.3	53.3	61.2
29	Zanjan	54.0	48.4	59.4
30	Qazvin	49.2	43.5	55.0
31	Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad	48.8	43.5	54.1
32	Qom	0.0	0.0	0.0

*Qom province didn’t participate in the STEPS Survey (2016)

By urban-rural

Percentage of individuals with raised blood pressure under control (at population-level)
by Urban-Rural Disaggregation

Raw data

wdt_ID	Disaggregation	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Urban	74.2	72.6	75.8
2	Total	72.7	71.3	74.0
3	Rural	69.2	66.6	71.6

By gender

Percentage of individuals with raised blood pressure under control (at population-level)
by Gender

Raw data

wdt_ID	Disaggregation	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Female	74.0	72.2	75.6
2	Total	72.7	71.3	74.0
3	Male	70.6	68.3	72.8