Hypertension and treatment outcomes in Palestine refugees in United Nations Relief and Works Agency primary health care clinics in Jordan
| Autor: | Majed Hababeh, Ali Khader, Anthony D. Harries, Akihiro Seita, Irshad Shaikh, Loai Farajallah, Rony Zachariah, Yousef Shahin, Anil Kapur, Ishtaiwi Abu-Zayed, Arata Kochi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty United Nations Refugee Blood Pressure Ambulatory Care Facilities Young Adult Diabetes mellitus medicine Diabetes Mellitus Odds Ratio Prevalence Humans Obesity Risk factor Aged Retrospective Studies Refugees Jordan Primary Health Care business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged medicine.disease Relief Work Arabs Infectious Diseases Blood pressure Treatment Outcome Family medicine Cohort Hypertension Parasitology Female business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Tropical medicineinternational health : TMIH. 19(10) |
| ISSN: | 1365-3156 |
| Popis: | objective In six United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) primary health care clinics inJordan serving Palestine refugees diagnosed with hypertension, to determine the number,characteristics, programme outcomes and measures of disease control for those registered up to 30June, 2013, and in those who attended clinic in the second quarter of 2013, the prevalence ofdisease-related complications between those with hypertension only and hypertension combined withdiabetes mellitus.method Retrospective cohort study with programme and outcome data collected and analysedusing E-Health.results There were 18 881 patients registered with hypertension with females (64%) and personsaged ≥40 years (87%) predominating. At baseline, cigarette smoking was recorded in 17%, physicalinactivity in 48% and obesity in 71% of patients. 77% of all registered patients attended clinic in thesecond quarter of 2013; of these, 50% had hypertension and diabetes and 50% had hypertensionalone; 9% did not attend the clinics and 10% were lost to follow-up. Amongst those attending clinic,92% had their blood pressure measured, of whom 83% had blood pressure |
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