Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Primary Health Care and Secondary Referral Medical Outpatient Clinic Settings at Enugu, Southeast Nigeria

Table 1

Comparison of rates of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in the local market community, primary health care, and secondary care referral clinics.

Setting	Prevalence% (number of subjects)	Awareness% (number of subjects)	Treatment% (number of subjects)	Control% (number of subjects)
Community [15]	42.2% (290)	29.4% (202)	NA	NA
Primary health care	9.2% (143)	91.9% (57)	87.7% (50)	46.0% (23)
2° care referral clinic	70.3% (513)	93.2% (478)	89.9% (399)	72.9% (290)