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. 2014 Oct 30:3:644.
doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-644. eCollection 2014.

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

Abderrahim Ziyyat  1 , Noureddine Ramdani  1 , Nour El Houda Bouanani  1 , Jean Vanderpas  2 , Benyounès Hassani  3 , Abdeslam Boutayeb  4 , Mohammed Aziz  1 , Hassane Mekhfi  1 , Mohammed Bnouham  1 , Abdelkhaleq Legssyer  1
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Epidemiology of hypertension and its relationship with type 2 diabetes and obesity in eastern Morocco

Abderrahim Ziyyat et al. Springerplus. .

Abstract

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 < 0.001). It is significantly very high in diabetic subjects (69.9%) than among the non-diabetic ones (27.4%) (p < 0.001). The odd ratio (OR) of the diabetics to HT is 6.16 (IC95% [4.33-8.74]). Among the obese persons, HT is present at (40.8%) vs. (30.2%) among the subjects of normal weight (p < 0.05). The OR of the obese to HT is 1.6 (IC95% [1.26 - 2.04]). In conclusion, our results show a high frequency of HT in the east of Morocco; it affects nearly one third of the adult population aged 40 years and older. The relations between type 2 diabetes and obesity have also been identified and estimated.

Keywords: Abdominal obesity; Eastern Morocco; Hypertension; Obesity; Type 2 diabetes.

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Proportions and corresponding numbers (in parentheses) of HT, diabetes and obesity among women and men. (Reminder: 80 data of BMI are missing). *p (F/H) < 0,001.
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