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What is the prevalence, awareness, and factors associated with hypertension in North West Tanzania?
What is the prevalence, awareness, and factors associated with hypertension in North West Tanzania?
Integrating blood pressure screening into community HIV programs effectively identifies undiagnosed hypertension in populations with low awareness and treatment rates.
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Low awareness and treatment rates signal screening needs in NW Tanzania; leaves open optimal integration strategies for hypertension control.
By integrating blood pressure screening into our long-standing community HIV screening program, we were able to identify many previously undiagnosed cases of hypertension and pre-hypertension. Age, residence, overweight and obesity were the major associated factors for hypertension. Awareness and treatment rates are very low indicating the need for programs to improve awareness, and treatment of hypertension.
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