Lessons Learned From Treating 34 Million People With Hypertension: The Global HEARTS Initiative
Study context
- Population
- People with hypertension treated in HEARTS-based hypertension control programmes, >220,000 primary care facilities in 38 countries
- Participants
- ≈34 million people · 38 countries
- Outcome
- Scale of HEARTS-based hypertension treatment programs
- Follow-up
- By December 2024
Methodological detailslessons learned from a multi-country hypertension control collaboration, ongoing, Resolve to Save Lives collaborated with national governments since 2017
- Lessons learned from a multi-country hypertension control collaboration
- Ongoing
- Resolve to Save Lives collaborated with national governments since 2017
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
People started on hypertension treatment
≈34 million
Primary care facilities
>220,000
Countries
38
Treatment cost per patient per year
<U.S.$5
Original publication
Lessons Learned From Treating 34 Million People With Hypertension: The Global HEARTS Initiative. J Am Coll Cardiol. Published 9 December 2025. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it