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Comparative Study
. 2016 Apr 1:16:294.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2965-5.

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and risk factors related to hypertension among urban adults in Inner Mongolia 2014: differences between Mongolian and Han populations

Guoju Li  1 , Hailing Wang  2 , Ke Wang  1 , Wenrui Wang  2 , Fen Dong  1 , Yonggang Qian  2 , Haiying Gong  1 , Guodong Xu  3 , Yanlong Li  1 , Li Pan  1 , Bin Wang  1 , Guangjin Zhu  1 , Guangliang Shan  4
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Comparative Study

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and risk factors related to hypertension among urban adults in Inner Mongolia 2014: differences between Mongolian and Han populations

Guoju Li et al. BMC Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: Han and Mongolian populations constitute approximately 96% of the population of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the two ethnic groups have different genetic backgrounds and lifestyle. We aim to assess the prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and related risk factors of hypertension among urban adults in Inner Mongolia, with the comparison of the differences between Mongolian and Han populations in this respect.

Methods: Three thousand two hundred fifty-one individuals aged 20-80 years (2326 Han and 925 Mongolian) were selected using a multistage cluster sampling method from Inner Mongolia in 2014. The adjusted prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension were evaluated by the Logistic regression. In addition, possible interactions were also tested. When interactions were found significant, strata-specific analysis were performed. Multivariate logistic regression was used for estimating independent associations between risk factors and hypertension.

Results: The prevalence of hypertension was 27.47% for Han population, 31.46% for Mongolian population. The adjusted prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension were 26.45, 65.43, 78.24 and 48.28% in Han, and 31.30, 68.22, 85.57 and 50.55% in Mongolian, respectively. There was no significant difference in the adjusted awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among Mongolian and Han adult residents (all P >0.05). Lower prevalence of hypertension was associated with younger age and healthy weight in both Mongolian and Han adults. Within Han adults, high education, moderate physical activity and non-alcohol drinkers were additionally associated with lower prevalence of hypertension, whereas within Mongolian adults, lower prevalence was associated with being female. Among residents with medium education level, nondrinkers had 0.60 times lower odds of having hypertension than current drinkers (OR = 0.60, 95% CI: 0.44-0.82); among residents with high education level, nondrinkers has 0.65 times lower odds of having hypertension than current drinkers (OR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.43-0.97).

Conclusions: Mongolian population had a higher prevalence of hypertension than Han population. There were no significant difference between Mongolian and Han population in awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, which suggested that there was no difference between the two ethnicities in the distribution of health resources.

Keywords: Ethnicity; Han; Hypertension; Mongolian; Urban.

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The adjusted prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension by sex in Han and Mongolian. The prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension by sex in Han and Mongolian were adjusted for age, body mass index, education, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, exercise and activity
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The adjusted prevalence of hypertension by education in sex (c), smoking status (a) and alcohol drinking status (b). The Adjusted prevalence of hypertension by education in the study population were adjusted for sex, ethnicity, age, body mass index, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, exercise and activity
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