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Prescription patterns and adequacy of blood pressure control among adult hypertensive patients in Kenya; findings and implications
... Introduction: Hypertension is a major cause of global morbidity and mortality, with high prevalence rates in Africa including Kenya. Consequently, it is imperative to understand current treatment approaches and their ...
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Blood pressure control status and associated factors among adult hypertensive patients on outpatient follow-up at University of Gondar Referral Hospital, northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective follow-up study
... the hypertensive population in the world are either untreated or inadequately ...of hypertensive patients has not been investigated in the study ...among adult hypertensive patients on ...
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Uncontrolled hypertension and associated factors among adult hypertensive patients on follow-up at Jimma University Teaching and Specialized Hospital: cross-sectional study
... The prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension was high, and more than half of the adult hypertensive patients had poor BP control at Jimma University specialized hospital. The rea- sons for the suboptimal BP ...
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Orthostatic hypotension and symptomatic subclinical orthostatic hypotension increase risk of cognitive impairment : an integrated evidence review and analysis of a large older adult hypertensive cohort
... older adult hypertensive population from the HYVET trial, baseline OH (sitting to standing) was associated with a 36% increased risk of cognitive decline ...
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Drug adherence for antihypertensive medications and its determinants among adult hypertensive patients attending in chronic clinics of referral hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia
... Generally, good adherence to medications is an im- portant achievement in disease management, and it is crucial to decrease complications like cardiovascular re- lated morbidity and mortality [15, 16]. However, there is ...
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Prevalence and associated factors of chronic kidney disease among adult hypertensive patients in Tigray teaching hospitals: a cross sectional study
... In this study the associated factors of chronic kidney disease were age with greater than 60 years [AOR (95% CI 1.43 (1.07–1.81)], which is in line with study conducted in Malaysia, Cameroon, China, Ghana, Democratic ...
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Antihypertensive medication adherence and associated factors among adult hypertensive patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital, southwest Ethiopia
... of hypertensive complications and increase risk of cardiovascular events which in turn reduces the ultimate clinical ...among adult hypertensive ...among adult hypertensive patients was ...
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Correlation between echocardiographic left ventricular mass and atherogenic index of plasma in adult hypertensive subjects in Olabisi Onabanjo university teaching hospital, Sagamu
... Results: The overall prevalence rate of dyslipidaemia in the study was 61.1%. The prevalence of dyslipidaemia in subjects (60.8%) was slightly lower than in controls (61.7%), though the difference was not statistically ...
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The effect of change in lifestyle measures on weight and body mass index among adult hypertensive patients in a tertiary hospital in north central Nigeria
... The study was conducted between February to May 2012 among hypertensive individuals aged 20 years and above presenting in the General Outpatients Clinic (GOPC) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). The study ...
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Adherence to Lifestyle Modifications among Adult Hypertensive Nigerians with Essential Hypertension in a Primary Care Clinic of a Tertiary Hospital in Resource-poor Environment of Eastern Nigeria
... their hypertensive condition or fear of hypertension-related risks but for other reasons such as religious reasons ...female hypertensive patients who constituted larger proportion of the study population ...
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Treatment adherence among adult hypertensive patients: a cross-sectional retrospective study in primary care in Romania
... adherence in a cohort study of 92 patients treated with ACEI, assessed by an electronic monitoring device. In our study, 32.8% of the hypertensive patients undergoing treat- ment with ARBs were highly adherent ...
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FIVE YEARS TRENDS IN ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MONOTHERAPY AND BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL IN PATIENTS REFERRED TO TERTIARY CARE CENTRE
... Hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease (the leading cause of death), stroke (the third leading cause), congestive heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and peripheral ...
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Quality of life of patients receiving a single or combination of calcium channel blocker-angiotensin receptor blocker: A cross-sectional study in West Java, Indonesia
... on adult hypertensive outpatients (aged 18–60 years) at a primary referral hospital in West Java, ...primary hypertensive patients who do not have comorbid heart or kidney disease) (Beckman, 2014), ...
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A qualitative study on hypertensive care behavior in primary health care settings in Malaysia
... Adherence Scale classified nonadherence as intentional and unintentional factors related to forgetfulness, care- lessness, and stopping medications when feeling better or worse. The Hill-Bone Compliance to Medication ...
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Hyperuricaemia and its Relations with Serum Lipid Abnormalities in Untreated, Newly Diagnosed Adult Nigerian Hypertensive Patients
... of hypertensive patients had high LDL-c compared to ...of hypertensive patients with high serum UA and components of dyslipidemia suggests that hypertensive patients with HU may be at risk of ...
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MODELING OF HEMORHEOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL DATA: A NEW APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND HYPERTENSION
... The above set of equations shows that of the various biochemical and HR parameters, only a few have strong explanatory relationship with BP and that relationship is not unique: it differs among between normal population, ...
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EFFECTS OF AGE, HEIGHT AD WEIGHT VARIATIOS O ASCORBIC ACID, BLOOD PRESSURE AD HDL-CHOLESTEROL LEVELS I ORMAL AD HYPERTESIVE MALES
... the hypertensive group were significantly lower than the normal control ...moderate hypertensive groups were compared with normotensive controls it was found that the levels were lower significantly in both ...
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NON-ADHERENCE AND ITS CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO ANTI-HYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION IN AMBULATORY HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS IN ADAMA REFERRAL HOSPITAL, OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIARemedan Anuwer, Muluneh Fromsa Seifu, Belayneh Kefale Gelaw, Thirumurgan Gunasekaran, Esayas Tadesse Gebremariam, Mustefa Ahmed MohammedDOWNLOAD/VIEW
... populations, it is essential to improve adherence among sufferers of the disease by identifying underlying factors in order to mitigating against adherence behavior and developing effective interventions to overcome ...
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Prevalence of Co-existing Hypertension and Obesity in Saudis
... the hypertensive individuals are obese, thus indicating a major role of obesity in the aetiology of ...the hypertensive, compared to hypertension in the obese ...is hypertensive and prevalence of ...
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Renal denervation in an animal model of diabetes and hypertension: Impact on the autonomic nervous system and nephropathy
... On the other hand, the LF component of arterial pres- sure variability decreased in the diabetic-SHR, as pre- viously shown in the same animal model [6] and in normotensive rats [3,4]. As the low frequency oscilla- tions ...
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