Prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension in Malaysia from 1980-2018: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 3 Pooled awareness, pooled control and subgroup analyses

Variable	Number of studies, n	Prevalence, %	95%CI	P value	I2, %	Figure
Overall awareness	10	51.4	46.6, 56.3	< 0.001	93.4	11
Gender
Male	3	67.8	42.4, 93.1	< 0.001	97.7	12A
Female	3	62.7	52.8, 72.6	0.046	67.6	12B
Ethnicity
Malay	3	45.4	29.8, 61.0	< 0.001	96.7	13A
Non-Malay	3	47.9	38.9, 56.8	< 0.001	90.4	13B
Geographical origin
Rural	4	45.3	34.9, 55.8	< 0.001	93.3	14
Urban	1	54.1	52.2, 56.0	NA	NA
Overall control	8	33.3	28.4, 38.2	< 0.001	85.2	15
Gender
Male	3	37.1	26.0, 48.2	< 0.001	59.1	16A
Female	3	30.4	16.0, 44.8	< 0.001	80.7	16B
Ethnicity
Malay	2	29.3	27.2, 31.5	0.68	0	17A
Non-Malay	3	35.6	29.9, 41.3	0.210	35.9	17B
Geographical origin
Rural	3	34.1	15.5, 52.7	< 0.001	94.7	18
Urban	1	36.5	33.6, 39.3	NA	NA

CI: Confidence interval; NA: Not available.