Key result
Smoking was not associated with hypertension in a nationally representative cohort of 14,722 Indonesian men followed from 1993 to 2014.
Why the study?
Does smoking increase the risk of hypertension in Indonesian men?
Population
Men aged ≥15 years from Indonesia
Comparison
Smoking (status and intensity) vs Non-smoking
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1993 to 2014
Authors
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Does not support smoking cessation for hypertension prevention in Indonesian men; leaves open causal inference and generalizability.
Observational (n=14,722)
Yes
Does smoking increase the risk of hypertension in Indonesian men?
In a large, nationally representative Indonesian cohort, smoking was not associated with an increased risk of hypertension when controlling for time-invariant individual characteristics.
Kitae Sohn (2018) conducted an observational in Hypertension (n=14,722). Smoking vs. Non-smoking was evaluated on Hypertension. Smoking was not associated with hypertension in a nationally representative cohort of 14,722 Indonesian men followed from 1993 to 2014.
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