Why the study?
What is the prevalence and management status of arterial hypertension in a population sample of Swedish women aged 38 to 60 years?
What is the prevalence and management status of arterial hypertension in a population sample of Swedish women aged 38 to 60 years?
This historical population study highlights a high prevalence of undiagnosed and inadequately treated arterial hypertension among middle-aged Swedish women in the late 1960s.
Reveals historical gaps in hypertension detection and control; leaves open whether similar shortfalls persist in modern cohorts.
Blood pressure measurements were performed in a comprehensive population study of women in Göteborg, Sweden, which was carried out in 1968-69. Altogether 1 462 women were studied in five age strata between 38 and 60 years of age. They were representative for the ages studied. The prevalence of arterial hypertension was 18%, if those with systolic blood pressure greater than 160 mmHg or diastobolic blood pressure greater than 95 mmHg or both and all on antihypertensive treatment are defined as hypertensives. The percentages increased from 5% of women aged 38, to 49% of women aged 60. Out of those defined as hypertensives, 74% were not receiving antihypertensive treatment, and among those on treatment 61% had systolic blood pressures greater than 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressures greater than 95 mmHg, or both.
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