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

Table 4

Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among the study population.

	HPT; (N)	Aware	Aware,; % (95% CI)	Treated and controlled,; % (95% CI)	Aware, not treated; % (95% CI)
Age group (years)
18–39	150	54	36.0 (28.7–44.0)	18.5 (10.2–31.3)	81.4 (68.7–89.8)
40–59	309	148	47.9 (42.4–53.5)	37.2 (29.7–45.3)	62.8 (54.7–70.3)
≥60	258	127	49.2 (43.1–55.3)	55.9 (47.1–64.3)	44.1 (35.6–52.9)
All	717	329	45.9 (42.2–49.6)	41.3 (36.1–46.8)	58.7 (53.2–63.9)