Table 1 Search method in EMBASE and Ovid MEDLINE
# | Searches |
|---|---|
1 | exp hypertension/ep, et, pc [Epidemiology, Etiology, Prevention] |
2 | (Hypertensi* or "blood pressure" or cardiovascular or cardiometabolic).ab. |
3 | 1 or 2 |
4 | exp prevalence/ |
5 | exp incidence/ |
6 | (Prevalence or proportion or survey or descriptive or cross-sectional or cohort or longitudinal or "attributable fraction" or incidence).sh. |
7 | 4 or 5 or 6 |
8 | exp Africa/ |
9 | indian ocean/ or exp mauritius/ or exp reunion/ or exp seychelles/ |
10 | (africa* or algeria* or angola* or benin* or botswana* or burkina* or burundi* or cameroon* or canary islands or cabo verde or cape verde* or central african republic or chad or comoros or comores or congo* or democratic republic of the congo or djibouti or egypt* or equatorial guinea* or eritrea* or ethiopia* or gabon* or gambia* or ghana* or guinea* or bissau or cote d'ivoire or kenya* or lesotho or liberia* or libya* or jamahiriya or jamahiryia or madagascar or malawi* or mali* or mauritania* or mauritius or morocc* or mozambi* or mocambique or namibia* or niger* or nigeria* or reunion or rwanda* or sao tome or senegal* or seychelles or sierra leone* or somalia* or south africa* or st helena or sudan* or swazi* or tanzania* or tanganyika or togo* or tunisia* or uganda* or western sahara or zaire* or zambia* or zimbabwe*).sh. |
11 | 8 or 9 or 10 |
12 | 3 and 7 and 11 |
13 | limit 12 to ("middle age (45 to 64 years)" or "all aged (65 and over)") [Limit not valid in Embase; records were retained] |
14 | limit 13 to humans |
15 | limit 14 to yr="1980 -Current" |