Prevalence and determinants of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in Latin America (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

Hypertension is a major contributor to the global burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Worldwide, 13% of deaths and 6% of disability-adjusted life years are attributed to hypertension. About 80% of the attributable health burden occurs in low- and middle-income countries. Although hypertension is relatively easy to diagnose and treat, hypertension awareness, treatment, and control (ATC) rates are low in most populations. To determine the prevalence of and identify factors associated to hypertension ATC in Latin America (LA), we used cross-sectional data from 10,228 hypertensives from the LA Studies on Obesity (LASO), which includes random samples from eight LA countries. We estimated the prevalence of hypertension ATC post-stratifying by the age and gender distribution of the population. We used continuation ratio models with the complementary log-log link to identify determinants of progressing from one stage to the next. Hypertension and ATC prevalence were 20.3%, 59.2%, 44.6%...

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