title: High Blood Pressure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Why Prevention, Detection, and Control are Urgent and Important.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Norm R C
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: IUMSP, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bovet
authors.affiliation: Hypertension in Africa Research Team, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.|MRC Research Unit on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, South Africa.
authors.forename: Aletta Elisabeth
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Schutte
authors.affiliation: Douala School of Medicine, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lemogoum
authors.affiliation: Cameroon Society of Epidemiology and Health Operations Research, Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon.
authors.forename: Armand Seraphin
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Nkwescheu
mesh_terms: D017954:Africa South of the Sahara / Q000453:epidemiology; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods; D018570:Risk Assessment; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior