{"id":8740,"date":"2019-07-15T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/the-clubmeds-study-aims-to-improve-hypertension-control-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T23:55:00","slug":"the-clubmeds-study-aims-to-improve-hypertension-control-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/the-clubmeds-study-aims-to-improve-hypertension-control-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"The CLUBMEDS study aims to improve hypertension control in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, <em>The British Medical Journal<\/em>\u00a0published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/9\/7\/e029824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>\u00a0by members of the 2017 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes Karla Santo, Godsent C Isiguzo, Emily Atkins, Shiva R Mishra, Rajmohan Panda, Lilian Mbau,\u00a0Augustine Odili and Salim Virani.<span class=\"name\"><span class=\"institution\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The published study,\u00a0entitled \u2018Adapting a club-based medication delivery strategy to a hypertension context: the CLUBMEDS Study in Nigeria\u2019,\u00a0seeks to evaluate the feasibility and impact of adherence clubs to improve hypertension control in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa is among the world\u2019s highest; however, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in this region are suboptimal. Among other barriers, the overburdened healthcare system poses a great challenge for hypertension control. Community peer-support groups are an alternative and promising strategy to improve adherence and blood pressure (BP) control.<\/p>\n<p>This paper is a product of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/2017-clubmeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLUBMEDS<\/a>\u00a0project, which was also supported by research assistants S<span class=\"name\">amuel B Fayomi and\u00a0<\/span>Collins Ugwu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, The British Medical Journal\u00a0published a\u00a0paper\u00a0by members of the 2017 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes Karla Santo, Godsent C Isiguzo, Emily Atkins, Shiva R Mishra, Rajmohan Panda, Lilian Mbau,\u00a0Augustine Odili and Salim Virani.\u00a0The published study,\u00a0entitled \u2018Adapting a club-based medication delivery strategy to a hypertension context: the CLUBMEDS Study in Nigeria\u2019,\u00a0seeks to evaluate the feasibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8741,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"event":[],"project-campaign":[311],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-8740","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - 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