Original scientific paper
The Prevalence of Hypertension among Croatian Hospitalized Coronary Heart Disease Patients
Hrvoje Vražić
Jozica Šikić
Tomo Lucijanić
Miroslav Raguž
Antica Romić
Nediljko Jukić
Janko Grman
Aleksandar Knežević
Mario Ivanuša
Mijo Bergovec
Abstract
The aim of this article was to investigate the prevalence of hypertension with selected anthropometric variables in a sample of hospitalized coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Croatia. This study investigated patients hospitalized in the period of October 1st 2007 until January 7th 2010 because of acute or chronic CHD in various hospitals in Croatia (N=1,298). Prevalence of hypertension in surveyed patient population was high: 70.1% of participants had raised blood pressure (BP) or previously diagnosed hypertension. Men had statistically significantly higher mean diastolic BP values
than women (78.91±8.97 vs. 77.12±10.61 mmHg, p=0.011). Prevalence of hypertension was statistically significantly more frequent in women (80.6% vs. 65.8%, p<0.001). Hypertension still represents an important problem among hospitalized Croatian CHD patients. Its prevalence, unfortunately, continues to increase in this population, suggesting that there is still great potential for improvement of preventive cardiology standards and measures that have already been undertaken.
Keywords
coronary heart disease; cardiovascular risk factor; hypertension; Croatia; primary prevention; secondary prevention
Hrčak ID:
75692
URI
Publication date:
2.1.2012.
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