India Hypertension Control Initiative: Blood Pressure Control Using Drug and Dose-Specific Standard Treatment Protocol at Scale in Punjab and Maharashtra, India, 2022.
Prabhdeep KaurManikandanesan SakthivelVettrichelvan VenkatasamyPadmaja JogewarSandeep S GillAbhishek KunwarMeenakshi SharmaAnupam Khungar PathniKiran DurgadSwagata Kumar SahooAmol WankhedeNavneet KumarVishwajit BharadwajBidisha DasTejpalsinh ChavanSuhas KhedkarLalit SarodeSampada D BangarAshish KrishnaRoopa ShivashankarParasuraman GaneshkumarPragati PragyaBalram BhargavaPublished in: Global heart (2024)
Simple drug- and dose-specific protocols helped achieve a high control rate among patients retained in care under program conditions. We recommend treatment protocols starting with a single low-cost drug and escalating with the same or another antihypertensive drug depending on the cost and availability.