Background: Hypertension is the leading cardiovascular risk factor worldwide,\nwith the greatest burden in low-income settings. Blood pressure (BP) control is\nusually low resulting in high rates of uncontrolled patients and complications.\nLow awareness resulting in poor therapeutic adherence represents an important\nfactor for insufficient blood pressure control in developing countries. Methods:\nThis was a three months non-randomized control trial at the cardiology clinic of\nthe Yaound�© Central Hospital. We included adults with essential and uncontrolled\nhypertension. The intervention consisted of group educative sessions\nevery week focusing on knowledge of hypertension risk factors, complications,\ntreatment, comorbidities, home self-monitoring of BP. Home blood pressure\nfigures, drug compliance, and knowledge regarding hypertension were evaluated\nbefore and after. Results: 17 participants (8 women) with a mean age\n56.2 �± 8.1 years. During intervention, mean SBP decreased by 30 mmHg while\nmean DBP drooped by 11 mmHg using home BP measures. Knowledge regarding\nhypertension, adherence and drug compliance increased by 36.5%,\n88.2% and 81.4% respectively. Conclusion: Therapeutic group education resulted\nin a significant improvement in BP control amongst uncontrolled hypertensive\npatients in sub Saharan Africa.
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