STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Chilumba, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Karonga

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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regular medication high bp (remdbp)

Data file: sts_stsp

Overview

Valid: 58

Invalid: 10

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 84

End: 84

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Are you on regular medication for high blood pressure? (relevant if Q16.5 (diabp); Have you ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure by a doctor or other health professional?=yes.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	21	36.2%
1	Yes	37	63.8%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		10

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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