May Measurement Month 2017–2019: A Community-Wide Opportunistic Blood Pressure Screening Campaign in Hong Kong

Table 2

Mean BP of participants using the first reading.

	2017	2018	2019	Total
Mean SBP	142.4	134.6	126.7	139.8
Mean DBP	74.4	78.8	77.5	75.5
Number with hypertension	1319/2358 (55.9%)	292/717 (40.7%)	44/149 (29.5%)	1655/3224 (51.3%)
Newly found to have hypertension	510/1823 (28.0%)	103/380 (27.1%)	22/79 (27.8%)	635/2282 (27.8%)
Uncontrolled BP with previous diagnosis of hypertension	809/1313 (61.6%)	176/277 (63.5%)	22/57 (38.6%)	1007/1647 (61.1%)