Hypertension control at a nephrology clinic at Jordan university hospital

To determine the degree of control of hypertension in hypertensive patients attending the nephrology clinic. A cross sectional study carried out by examining the records of patients with hypertension attending the nephrology clinic. There were 335 subjects included with mean age of 58.8 +/- 13.4 years and 189 [56.4%] were women. The mean systolic BP was131 +/- 13 and mean diastolic BP was 79 +/- 7. Two hundred seventy three subjects [81.5%] had BP