Advancing Hypertension Care in Singapore Primary Care

Family Medicine Symposium
Advancing Hypertension Care in Singapore Primary Care

Date: 20 Sep 2025, Saturday | Time: 1355 - 1525 | Track Type: Symposium | Venue: Whitespace, Level 2, Academia

Despite having effective pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments of hypertension, the prevalence of hypertension is rising, both globally and in Singapore. Half of the people with hypertension remain undiagnosed, while among those diagnosed, half remain uncontrolled. Our revent qualitative study involving doctors, nurses, pharmacists and patients identified challenges in diagnosis, self monitoring, interpretation of home blood pressure (BP) and adherence to medication. To address these challenges, it requires a change in practice i.e. less reliance on human behaviour and explore the use of technology. The paradigm of hypertension care must shift from merely controlling home BP to achieving 24-hour BP control and reducing variation in circadian BP.

TOPIC 1:
Advancing Hypertension Care in Singapore Primary Care: Introduction
Speaker: Prof Ng Chirk Jenn

TOPIC 2:
Global Prevalence of Nocturnal Hypertension: A Systematic Review
Speaker: Dr Charlotte Teong Chuin Yi and Dr Lim Zong Yi

TOPIC 3:
Prevalence of Hypertension Phenotypes in Singapore Polyclinics: A Cross-sectional Study
Speaker: Mr Eldred Sng Hui Yeong

TOPIC 4:
Acceptability and Feasibility of Difference ABPM Devices in Primary Care: A Mixed-methods Study
Speaker: Asst Prof Moosa Aminath Shiwaza

TOPIC 5:
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Different ABPM Service Models
Speaker: Dr Kyaw Lwin Show