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Hypertension and other cardiovascular disease risk factors among Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, and Puerto Ricans from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) [Public Health Rep] 1996; Vol. 111 Suppl 2, pp. 7-10. - Publication Year :
- 1996
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Abstract
- DESPITE THEIR HIGHER PREVALENCE of obesity and diabetes, Hispanics have lower or equal rates of hypertension than non-Hispanic whites (1-4). Healthy People 2000 objectives call for increasing the proportion of hypertensive men whose blood pressure is under control to at least 40%. In addition, the objectives recommend reducing the prevalence of overweight to 41% among hypertensive women, and to 35% among hypertensive men (5). The Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) collected data on Mexican Americans (MA), Cuban Americans (CA), and Puerto Ricans (PR) living in the continental United States. A trained physician measured systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure twice in one visit. Our findings provide data to assess baseline estimates for several Healthy People 2000 objectives among Hispanics. Based on criteria from The Fifth Report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-V), we found Hispanic women to have higher rates of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension than men. Only 8% of MA and PR men and 9% of CA men who were hypertensive had their high blood pressure under control. The prevalence of overweight among hypertensive men ranged from 39% to 60%; and among hypertensive women, from 44% to 74%. Hispanic women with six or fewer years of education had higher prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Future research should investigate the socioeconomic factors associated with the presence of these risk factors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Cardiovascular Diseases ethnology
Cardiovascular Diseases etiology
Cholesterol blood
Cuba ethnology
Educational Status
Female
Health Surveys
Humans
Hypertension complications
Hypertension drug therapy
Male
Mexico ethnology
Obesity complications
Prevalence
Puerto Rico ethnology
Risk Factors
Sex Factors
Smoking ethnology
United States epidemiology
Hispanic or Latino
Hypertension ethnology
Mexican Americans
Obesity ethnology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0033-3549
- Volume :
- 111 Suppl 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8898761