Prevalence of Hypertension in the Middle Belt of Ghana: A Community-Based Screening Study

Table 2

Various types of hypertension prevalence by age group within the surveyed population.

Raised blood pressure type	Respondent’s age group			Total (2,555)
	18–39 years; (N = 1,158)	40–59 years; (N = 913)	60 and above years; (N = 484)
	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)
Prehypertension	38.6 (35.8–41.1)	44.5 (41.3–47.7)	48.3 (43.9–52.8)	42.5 (40.6–44.5)
Systolic hypertension	3.4 (2.5–4.6)	8.2 (6.6–10.2)	21.5 (18.0–25.4)	8.5 (7.5–9.7)
Diastolic hypertension	3.0 (2.2–4.2)	3.9 (2.8–5.4)	2.3 (1.3–4.1)	3.2 (2.6–4.0)
Hypertension (stage 1)	8.3 (6.8–10.0)	18.8 (16.4–21.5)	27.9 (24.1–32.1)	15.8 (14.4–17.2)
Hypertension (stage 2)	2.3 (1.6–3.4)	12.0 (10.1–14.3)	19.0 (15.7–22.7)	9.0 (7.9–10.1)