Assessment of a non-physician screening program for hypertension and cardiovascular risk in community pharmacies.

•A non-physician screening program based in community pharmacies is easily feasible.•A pharmacy-based screening program is attractive for subjects, especially for young adults.•Non-physician screening programs could underline how hypertension is undiagnosed.•Non-physician screening programs could underline how BP control is unsatisfactory.•Screening programs allow to detect new presumptive hypertensives among apparently healthy individuals.