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

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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Regular medication high BP (remdbp)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 106

Invalid: 63

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 422

End: 422

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	7	6.6%
1	Yes	99	93.4%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		63

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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