Key result
Depression and chronic diseases including arthritis, angina, diabetes, and asthma were significantly associated with an increased likelihood of hypertension among elderly Ghanaians (OR 1.22 for depression).
Cross-Sectional
Odds Ratio: 1.22
Chronic diseases including arthritis, angina, diabetes, asthma, and depression are significant risk factors for hypertension among the elderly in Ghana.
These associations should not yet change hypertension management in elderly Ghanaians; cross-sectional data leaves open causality and generalizability.
OBJECTIVE: This study sought to examine the risk factors associated with hypertension among the elderly in Ghana. We focused on the association between chronic diseases, socioeconomic factors, and being hypertensive. METHOD: Data for the study were drawn from Wave 1 of the 2007/2008 Ghana Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). A binary logit model was used to estimate the effect of other noncommunicable diseases, psychosocial factors, lifestyle factors, and sociocultural and biosocial factors on the elderly being hypertensive. RESULTS: Elderly Ghanaians who had been diagnosed with arthritis, angina, diabetes, and asthma were significantly more likely to be hypertensive. Additionally, those depressed were found to be 1.22 times more likely to be hypertensive. DISCUSSION: Prevention and control of hypertension are complex and demand multistakeholder collaboration including governments, educational institutions, media, food and beverage industry, and a conscious focus on personal lifestyle factors.
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Boateng et al. (2015) conducted a cross-sectional in Hypertension. Chronic diseases (arthritis, angina, diabetes, asthma) and depression vs. Absence of these conditions was evaluated on Hypertension (OR 1.22). Depression and chronic diseases including arthritis, angina, diabetes, and asthma were significantly associated with an increased likelihood of hypertension among elderly Ghanaians (OR 1.22 for depression).
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