| Título: | Newly detected hypertension in an Iranian population: an epidemiological study |
| Autores: |
Mohsen Azimi-Nezhad Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan Habib A. Esmaeili Seyyed M.R. Parizadeh Seyed Javad Hosseini Mohammad Safarian Seyyed M.J. Parizadeh Roghayeh Paydar Hanieh Yaghootkar Amirhossein Sahebkar Gordon Ferns |
| Fecha: | 2010-02-17 |
| Publicador: | Asian Biomed |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: | Peer-reviewed Article |
| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Background: Early detection of undiagnosed hypertension may prevent or reduce the onset and progression of many diseases./span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Objective: To investigate the prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension in an Iranian population and its relation with socio-demographic, anthropometric, and biochemical factors./span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Methods: Four thousand five hundred nineteen subjects, aged 15-65 years, were eligible for the study. They were entered into the study through the cluster sampling method./span/pp class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Results: The overall prevalence of previously unknown hypertension was 24.2%. It was higher among urban dwellers who were poorly educated, married, and were manual laborers by occupation compared to other groups./span/pspan style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Conclusion: Poor literacy status as well socioeconomic conditions may be positively associated with hypertension. Undiagnosed hypertension can be lowered by increasing access to routine blood pressure measurement, pre-employment medical examination, and improvement of the health seeking behavior in these groups./span |
| Idioma: | No aplica |