Awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes mellitus in an Iranian population: the IHHP study

We used data from the baseline survey from the Isfahan Healthy Heart Programme to determine the prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes among a representative samples of 12,514 adults living in 3 cities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Eastern Mediterranean health journal 2009-11, Vol.15 (6), p.1455-1463
Hauptverfasser:	Shirani, S, Kelishadi, R, Sarrafzadegan, N, Khosravi, A, Sadri, Gh, Amani, A, Heidari, S, Ramezani, M A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Analysis of Variance Attitude to Health Awareness Cross-Sectional Studies Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology Diabetes Mellitus - psychology Diabetes Mellitus - therapy Dyslipidemias - epidemiology Dyslipidemias - psychology Dyslipidemias - therapy Educational Status Female Health Care Surveys Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Surveys Humans Hypertension - epidemiology Hypertension - psychology Hypertension - therapy Iran - epidemiology Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Prevalence Urban Health - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:	We used data from the baseline survey from the Isfahan Healthy Heart Programme to determine the prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes among a representative samples of 12,514 adults living in 3 cities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes was 17.3%, 66.3% and 5.6% respectively. Awareness, treatment and control of hypertension were 40.3%, 35.3%, and 9.1% respectively. The rates for dyslipidaemia were 14.4%, 7.1% and 6.5% respectively, and 54.6% of diabetics were aware of their disease and 46.2% were under treatment.
ISSN:	1020-3397