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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública 2016; 42 (1)

Socioeconomic and environmental determinants of blood hypertension in the Argentinian adult population

Viego VN, Luján TK

Language: Spanish
References: 24
Page: 27-36
PDF size: 173.63 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: hypertension is a major cause of demand in health services in Argentina.
Objective: to analyze the impact of age, gender, habits and socioeconomic conditions on the prevalence of hypertension in the adult population of Argentina.
Methods: cross-sectional analytical study that used data from the Second National Survey of Risk Factors in 2009, which was made in the adult population living in the over 5 000 inhabitant towns. We consider age, gender, overweight, salt intake, physical exercise, smoking, alcohol consumption, type of health coverage, working hours and socioeconomic status were considered as predictive variables of hypertension events. Possible endogeneity bias between high blood pressure and salt consumption was controlled for by applying a normal bivariate probability regression model.
Results: the overall prevalence of hypertension in Argentina´s urban adult population is 32.6 %. Overweight, gender, age, salt consumption, alcohol abuse and health coverage were found to be significant sound variables for predicting hypertension.
Conclusions: the implementation of strategies to reduce overweight and to encourage the change of habits regarding alcohol consumption and salt intake would be relevant for the prevention of hypertension in Argentina. These strategies should be specially targeted to women and elder people in order to be more efficacious.


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