High Blood Pressure: key data sources

The 1995, 1998, 2003 and annual 2008-2010 Scottish Health Surveys have obtained health-related data from a sample of the population of Scotland. The survey includes actual measurement of the blood pressure of the individuals within the sample.

ISD's Practice Team Information (PTI) contains information about primary care data from a sample of approximately 5% of practices in Scotland, and gives an indication of the number of patients attending because of high blood pressure.

The Read Codes used in primary care to identify and record high blood pressure are:

Further details of these data sources are given on our overview of key data sources pages.