Highlights a significant gap in awareness and treatment-seeking behavior for hypertension among young adults in India, identifying specific demographic groups at higher risk of poor engagement.
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Warrants enhanced hypertension screening in young Indian adults; leaves open prospective studies before guiding practice.
More than 1 in 10 younger adults in India have hypertension and only half of them were aware of their status and one-fifth sought treatment. Adolescents, males, Hindus, urban population, higher education and residing in Northern, Central and Southern region had poor treatment-seeking behaviour.
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Krishnamoorthy et al. (2022) studied this question.
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