Hypertension increases the risk of both cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, leading to the premature death of an estimated 9.4 million persons per year worldwide. The most recent Uganda data of 2016 puts the overall prevalence of hypertension among adults at 31.5% from 24.3% in 2014 by the Uganda 2014 STEPwise approach to noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance (STEPS) survey. Public health interventions such as introduction of walkways and cycling lanes, promotion of consumption of healthy foods, cessation of smoking and promotion of health seeking have been made towards reducing hypertension in Uganda through the Ministry of Health (MoH). Despite these efforts to reduce the burden of hypertension, their impact has not been measured recently. We therefore, set out to describe the trends and distribution of hypertension in Uganda. We described the trends and distribution of Hypertension in Uganda from 2016 to 2021.
