Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey
This cross-sectional study aimed at estimating prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and predictors of hypertension among Saudi adult population. Multistage stratified sampling was used to select 4758 adult participants. Three blood pressure measurements using an automatic sphygmomanometer, soc...
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| author | Abdalla A. Saeed Nasser A. Al-Hamdan Ahmed A. Bahnassy Abdelshakour M. Abdalla Mostafa A. F. Abbas Lamiaa Z. Abuzaid |
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| description | This cross-sectional study aimed at estimating prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and predictors of hypertension among Saudi adult population. Multistage stratified sampling was used to select 4758 adult participants. Three blood pressure measurements using an automatic sphygmomanometer, sociodemographics, and antihypertensive modalities were obtained. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 25.5%. Only 44.7% of hypertensives were aware, 71.8% of them received pharmacotherapy, and only 37.0% were controlled. Awareness was significantly associated with gender, age, geographical location, occupation, and comorbidity. Applying drug treatment was significantly more among older patients, but control was significantly higher among younger patients and patients with higher level of physical activity. Significant predictors of hypertension included male gender, urbanization, low education, low physical activity, obesity, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. In conclusion prevalence is high, but awareness, treatment, and control levels are low indicating a need to develop a national program for prevention, early detection, and control of hypertension. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-20f5d7b242b54a5b82e6785923a6e5392025-02-03T01:11:36ZengWileyInternational Journal of Hypertension2090-03922011-01-01201110.4061/2011/174135174135Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National SurveyAbdalla A. Saeed0Nasser A. Al-Hamdan1Ahmed A. Bahnassy2Abdelshakour M. Abdalla3Mostafa A. F. Abbas4Lamiaa Z. Abuzaid5Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City, P.O. Box 59046, Riyadh 11525, Saudi ArabiaThis cross-sectional study aimed at estimating prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and predictors of hypertension among Saudi adult population. Multistage stratified sampling was used to select 4758 adult participants. Three blood pressure measurements using an automatic sphygmomanometer, sociodemographics, and antihypertensive modalities were obtained. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 25.5%. Only 44.7% of hypertensives were aware, 71.8% of them received pharmacotherapy, and only 37.0% were controlled. Awareness was significantly associated with gender, age, geographical location, occupation, and comorbidity. Applying drug treatment was significantly more among older patients, but control was significantly higher among younger patients and patients with higher level of physical activity. Significant predictors of hypertension included male gender, urbanization, low education, low physical activity, obesity, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. In conclusion prevalence is high, but awareness, treatment, and control levels are low indicating a need to develop a national program for prevention, early detection, and control of hypertension.http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/174135 |
| spellingShingle | Abdalla A. Saeed Nasser A. Al-Hamdan Ahmed A. Bahnassy Abdelshakour M. Abdalla Mostafa A. F. Abbas Lamiaa Z. Abuzaid Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey International Journal of Hypertension |
| title | Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey |
| title_full | Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey |
| title_short | Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey |
| title_sort | prevalence awareness treatment and control of hypertension among saudi adult population a national survey |
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