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Table 3 Global and Latin American rates of awareness, treatment and control of cardiovascular diseases – PURE study

From: Maternal undernutrition and cardiometabolic disease: a latin american perspective

Variables

Global prevalence (%)

Latin American prevalence (%)

Hypertension

  

 Awareness

46.5

57.1

 Treatment

40.6

52.8

 Control

13.2

18.8

Secondary preventive drugs

  

 Antiplatelet drugs

25.3

29.0

 β-blockers

17.4

28.8

 ACE / ARB

19.5

37.9

 Statins

14.6

15.0

Healthy lifestyle

  

 Smoking cessation

53.4

67.2

 Physical activity

35.1

41.5*

 Healthy diets

39.0

43.2*

  1. Extracted values from published data [32-34]. *Data for the global lower-middle-income countries, where the Latin Americans are included. ACE: angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors. ARB: angiotensin-receptor blockers.
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