Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control of Hypertension in Russian Federation (Data of Observational ESSERF-2 Study)

Participants of the study ESSE-RF-2 and co-authors: Moscow: Konstantinov V. V., Pokrovskaya M.S., Efimova I.A., Sivakova O.V.; Krasnodar: Alekseenko S.N., Gubarev S.V.; О msk: Livzan M.A., Grishechkina I.A., Rozhkova M.Yu.; Republic of Karelia: Vezikova N.N., Skopec I. S.; Ryazan: Filippov E.V., Dobrynina N.V., Nikulina N.N., Pereverzeva K.G., Moseychuk K.A. Aim. Evaluate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among people aged 25-64 examined in 4 regions of the Russian Federation. Material and methods. Study materials were the representative selections of non-organized male (n=3000) and female (n=3714) inhabitants of aged 25-64 from 4 regions of the Russian Federation (Krasnodar region, Omsk region, Ryazan region, the Republic of Karelia), response rate>80%. Systematic stratified multilevel random election was formed with locality criteria (Kisch method). All the participants were interviewed using the standard questionnaire. The universal epidemiological methods and evaluation criteria were used. The study was approved by the local ethics Committee of National research center for preventive medicine. Participants signed informed consent. Hypertension was defined as an average systolic blood pressure (SBP)≥140 mmHg and/or average diastolic blood pressure (DBP)≥90 mmHg and/or antihypertensive therapy (AHT). The efficacy of treatment was the achievement of the target BP. Control group – patients with BP