Today is the start of May Measurement Month – a global campaign to increase awareness of raised blood pressure. During May volunteers will be running screening sites around the world and measuring individual’s blood pressure. Today also sees the publication of the results of the 2018 campaign in the European Heart Journal, which screened 1.5 million individuals worldwide and identified over 1/3 measured had untreated or inadequately treated hypertension.

To obtain a reliable reading of blood pressure individuals in the study had three consecutive blood pressure measurements taken, and the average of the second and third was used within the analysis. However not all individuals had a second or third reading, therefore we designed and implemented a multiple imputation model to handle the missing data in this large data set. Full details of the study, analysis methods and results are available at the below link.