Hypertension: diagnosis, control status and its predictors in general population aged between 15 and 75 years: a community-based study in southeastern Iran

Hamid Najafipour, Hamid Nasri (), Mahdi Afshari, Mansoor Moazenzadeh, Mostafa Shokoohi, Afsaneh Foroud, Koorosh Etemad, Behnam Sadeghi and Ali Mirzazadeh

International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, issue 6, 999-1009

Abstract: Hypertension affected almost one-fifth of the population. Given the poor control in diagnosed hypertensive patients, it is alarming that the current health system in urban areas in Iran is not effective enough to control the epidemic spread of non-communicable diseases. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2014

Keywords: Hypertension; Pre-hypertension; Undiagnosed hypertension; Uncontrolled hypertension; Risk factors; Iran (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-014-0602-6

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