PMID- 33113094
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210217
LR  - 20210217
IS  - 1179-1985 (Electronic)
IS  - 1120-9879 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Jan
TI  - Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypertension Among Young Adults in Albania.
PG  - 35-48
LID - 10.1007/s40292-020-00419-5 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular 
      disease and the leading cause of death worldwide. Hypertension was defined as 
      systolic or diastolic blood pressure according to Joint National Committee 7 
      (JNC7) and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Hypertension Association 
      (ACC/AHA) rules. AIM: The aims of this study was to determine the difference in 
      hypertension prevalence and its risk factors using ACC/AHA rule, and compared its 
      result with JNC7 rule. METHODS: Data were collected using two-stage stratified 
      cluster sample of households from 2017/18 Albanian Demographic and Health Survey. 
      Data were analyzed using the descriptive and multivariate logistic regression 
      model. RESULTS: Among 15,003 respondents aged 15-49 years, the overall prevalence 
      of hypertension was 63.48% and 16.24%, as per ACC/AHA and JNC7 rules, 
      respectively with an absolute increase of prevalence by 47.3% (CI 46.4-48.2%). 
      According to the ACC/AHA rule, in most of the categories of the respondents, the 
      prevalence of hypertension was 40% higher compared with the JNC7 rule. In 
      multivariate analysis, age, education, richest respondents, number of living 
      children (>/= 3), health insurance and gender had significant (p < 0.05) impact on 
      hypertension for both rules. Besides, the middle and richer wealth index, 
      religion, and physically active work had also significant (p < 0.05) impact on 
      hypertension for JNC7 rules. CONCLUSIONS: Newly established ACC/AHA rule led to a 
      significant increase in the proportion of hypertension among the Albanian 
      populations. Similarly, there was a significant difference in the impact of some 
      socioeconomic factors on hypertension as per both rules. Implementation of the 
      prevention and control programs of hypertension are required to increase the 
      awareness of the bad impact of hypertension.
FAU - Ahammed, Benojir
AU  - Ahammed B
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8208-9579
AD  - Statistics Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, 9208, Bangladesh. 
      benojirstat@ku.ac.bd.
FAU - Maniruzzaman, Md
AU  - Maniruzzaman M
AD  - Statistics Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, 9208, Bangladesh.
AD  - Department of Statistics, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
FAU - Talukder, Ashis
AU  - Talukder A
AD  - Statistics Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, 9208, Bangladesh.
FAU - Ferdausi, Farzana
AU  - Ferdausi F
AD  - Jhikargacha Upazila Health Complex, Jashore, Bangladesh.
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201028
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev
JT  - High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the 
      Italian Society of Hypertension
JID - 9421087
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Albania/epidemiology
MH  - *Blood Pressure
MH  - Blood Pressure Determination/standards
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hypertension/diagnosis/*epidemiology/physiopathology
MH  - Life Style
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Practice Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Social Determinants of Health
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Albania
OT  - Hypertension
OT  - Prevalence
OT  - Risk factors
EDAT- 2020/10/29 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/18 06:00
CRDT- 2020/10/28 17:18
PHST- 2020/08/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/10/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/10/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/18 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/10/28 17:18 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s40292-020-00419-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s40292-020-00419-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev. 2021 Jan;28(1):35-48. doi: 
      10.1007/s40292-020-00419-5. Epub 2020 Oct 28.