These nations can also improve the detection of high blood pressure in their populations, and provide better treatment with blood pressure-lowering drugs. This has worked in high-income western countries such as the U.S., the U.K and Canada, as well as in Australia, Peru, South Korea and Singapore, which had the lowest proportion of adults living with high blood pressure in 2015 at below or around 1 in 8 women and 1 in 5 men.