Antihypertensive Medicines Prescriptions before and after the Nigeria Hypertension Society Guidelines and Prescriber's Awareness of the Guideline

The Nigerian hypertension guideline (2005) was based on 1999 ISH/WHO and the 2003 Sub-Saharan Africa hypertension guidelines. The changes in the prescribing pattern of physicians before and following the introduction of these guidelines as well as physicians' awareness of the guidelines in Southern Nigeria are unknown