| Titre : | Actions to Control High Blood Pressure Among Hypertensive Adults in Texas Counties Along the Mexico Border : Texas BRFSS, 2007. (2012) |
| Auteurs : | Carma AYALA ; BALCAZAR (Hector-G) : USA. University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. El Paso Regional Campus. El Paso. TX. ; Luis ESCOBEDO ; Jing FANG ; Robert MERRITT ; Stephen PAN ; Guijing WANG ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Atlanta. GA. USA ; Texas Department of State Health Services. El Paso. TX. USA |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Public health reports (vol. 127, n° 2, 2012) |
| Pagination : | 173-185 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Pression artérielle ; Hypertension artérielle ; Adulte ; Mexique ; Frontière ; Homme ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord ; Amérique centrale |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS H99n8R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. We examined the prevalence of actions taken to control blood pressure as measured by taking antihypertensive medication or making lifestyle modifications among hypertensive adults residing along the Texas/Mexico border. Methods. We used self-reported data from the 2007 Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, with oversampling of border counties. We calculated the age-standardized prevalence of actions taken to control hypertension by selected characteristics. Results. In analyses that combined ethnicity with predominant language spoken, those least likely to take any action to control their blood pressure-either by taking an antihypertensive medication or by making any of four lifestyle modifications-were Spanish-speaking Hispanic people (83.2 % +/-2.7 % standard error [SE]), with English-speaking non-Hispanic people (88.9 % +/-0.8 % SE) having the highest prevalence of taking action to control blood pressure. When analyzed by type of medical category, uninsured Hispanic people (63.8 % +/-4.8 % SE) had the lowest prevalence of taking action to control their blood pressure compared with uninsured non-Hispanic people (75.4 % +/-4.7 % SE). Nonborder Texas residents with hypertension were more likely to take antihypertensive medications (78.4 % +/-1.0 % SE) than border county residents with hypertension (70.7 % +/-2.0 % SE). Conclusions. Public health efforts must be undertaken to improve the control of hypertension among residents of Texas counties along the Mexico border, particularly for uninsured Hispanic people. |
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