Socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: evidence from the PERSIAN cohort study

CONCLUSION: The prevalence of HTN was higher among low-SES individuals, who also showed higher levels of awareness. However, treatment and control of HTN were more concentrated among those who had higher levels of SES, indicating that people at a higher risk of adverse event related to HTN (the low SES individuals) are not benefiting from the advantage of treatment and control of HTN. Such a gap between diagnosis (prevalence) and control (treatment and control) of HTN needs to be addressed by public health policymakers.PMID:35864469 | DOI:10.1186/s12889-022-13444-x

Source: Cancer Control - July 21, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Mahin Amini Mahdi Moradinazar Fatemeh Rajati Moslem Soofi Sadaf G Sepanlou Hossein Poustchi Sareh Eghtesad Mahmood Moosazadeh Javad Harooni Javad Aghazadeh-Attari Majid Fallahi Mohammad Reza Fattahi Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam Farhad Moradpour Azim Nejatizad Source Type: research