Conclusions While HSBP prevalence shows an increasing trend, age-standardized death and DALY rates are decreasing in Brazil, probably as results of successful public policies for CVD secondary prevention and control, but suboptimal control of its determinants.
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Trends in prevalence, mortality, and morbidity associated with high systolic blood pressure in Brazil from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the "Global Burden of Disease 2017" (GBD 2017) study.
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In the VIGITEL telephone survey, the prevalence of self-reported medical diagnosis of HTN did not change from 2006 to 2017 [ 20 ]—but a non-significant increasing trend in the past years was observed—while a previous meta-analysis of population-based studies showed a trend toward decreasing prevalence from 1987 to 2007 [ 8 ].