May Measurement Month 2018: results of blood pressure screening from 41 countries

In May 2017, the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) introduced the first in a series of annual blood pressure (BP) screening programmes with the simple aim of raising awareness of the importance of raised BP as the single biggest contributor to the global burden of disease and to globalmortality. After the success of this initial May Measurement Month (MMM) campaign—which included over 1.2 million screenees from 80 countries,2 MMM expanded in 2018 and again in 2019. The global results of MMM17 and MMM18 have been published elsewhere2,3 and the national data from 39 of 40 countries who screened at least 2500 adults in 2017 were collated as a European Heart Journal (EHJ) Supplement. 4 Here, we present a second collation of data from 41 countries with the highest number of participants who took part in MMM18.