Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in older people: results from the population-based KORA-age 1 study

Background Hypertension remains a significant modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and a major determinant of morbidity and mortality. We aimed to describe sex-stratified age-standardized estimates of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, and their associated fa...

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Published in:	BMC public health Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors:	Muli, Samuel, Meisinger, Christa, Heier, Margit, Thorand, Barbara, Peters, Annette, Amann, Ute
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 02.07.2020 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Adults Age Antihypertensives Awareness Biostatistics Blood pressure Blood pressure measurement Cardiovascular diseases Chronic Disease epidemiology Confidence intervals Control Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Education Environmental Health Epidemiology Health aspects Health screening Health services Hypertension Medicine Medicine & Public Health Men Morbidity Multivariable control Older adults Older people Physicians Population Population studies Population-based studies Prevalence Public Health Research Article Risk analysis Risk factors Statistical analysis Studies Surveys Treatment Vaccine Variables Germany Hypertension Control Prevalence Treatment Older adults Awareness
ISSN:	1471-2458, 1471-2458
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