Epidemiology of hypertension and its relationship with type 2 diabetes and obesity in eastern Morocco

The major objectives of this work are to estimate the hypertension (HT) frequency in the east of Morocco and to study the relationship between HT, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Our sample is composed of 1628 adults aged 40 years and older, recruited voluntarily by using the convenience sampling metho...

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Published in:SpringerPlus 2014-10, Vol.3 (1), p.644-644, Article 644
Main Authors: Ziyyat, Abderrahim, Ramdani, Noureddine, Bouanani, Nour El Houda, Vanderpas, Jean, Hassani, Benyounès, Boutayeb, Abdeslam, Aziz, Mohammed, Mekhfi, Hassane, Bnouham, Mohammed, Legssyer, Abdelkhaleq
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Language:English
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Biomedical and Life Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Summary:The major objectives of this work are to estimate the hypertension (HT) frequency in the east of Morocco and to study the relationship between HT, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Our sample is composed of 1628 adults aged 40 years and older, recruited voluntarily by using the convenience sampling method through 26 screening campaigns in urban and rural areas of the east of Morocco. We enumerated 516 hypertensive people (31.7%), without significant difference between women (32.5%) and men (30.2%). The known hypertensive people represent 10.1% of the whole sample. The frequency of HT, increases with age and it is more marked in rural (39.9%) than in urban areas (29%) (p 
ISSN:2193-1801
2193-1801
DOI:10.1186/2193-1801-3-644