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Socioeconomic and racial inequalities, particularly lower education levels and Black race, are strongly associated with poorer high blood pressure control in Brazilian adults, independent of health services access. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

June 23, 2015PLoS ONEOpen Access

Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Control of High Blood Pressure: Results of the ELSA-Brasil Study

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Population

15,103 civil servants in six Brazilian state capitals collected at the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

DCDóra ChorEscola Nacional de Saúde Pública ARAntônio Luiz Pinho RibeiroUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais MCMarília Sá CarvalhoFundação Oswaldo Cruz

Discussion

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Implication

Disparities in BP control by education and race warrant monitoring in Brazil; extends observational data but leaves open causal pathways and intervention targets.

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Population

15,103 civil servants in six Brazilian state capitals (54% female) collected at the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) baseline (2008-2010)

Outcome

Prevalence, awareness, types of anti-hypertensive treatment, and association of high blood pressure control with social position (education, per capita family income, and self-reported race)surrogate

Socioeconomic and racial inequalities are strongly associated with high blood pressure control in Brazil, beyond the expected influence of health services access.

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Chor et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1e710ea42c1ff064329e9e https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127382

Topics

Hypertension management

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Implication

Disparities in BP control by education and race warrant monitoring in Brazil; extends observational data but leaves open causal pathways and intervention targets.

Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Control of High Blood Pressure: Results of the ELSA-Brasil Study

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Structured PICO

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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Control of High Blood Pressure: Results of the ELSA-Brasil Study

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Structured PICO

Cite This Study

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