Prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults: Results from the great India blood pressure survey.

We agree with the reader that selection bias is plausible, given that our study was based on survey results. This also explains the high awareness of hypertension in our study. The same has been highlighted in the limitation section of our manuscript. National trends suggest a heterogeneous distribution of prevalence of hypertension in India. We agree with the reader that state-wise data and distribution of prevalence according to urban-rural strata will help guide health policy. In the survey, camps were set-up as per the population density of the region. However, this data was not available for analysis and remains a limitation. We provided age- and gender-standardized prevalence estimates according to the 2011 census of India to account for the unequal distribution of participant population in our study. Further, our adjusted analysis suggested a prevalence of 30.7% which is similar to that reported by the largest meta-analysis on hypertension prevalence in India by Anchala et al

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