Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 3lMR0xcM. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The determinants of hypertension in West Africa have not been well defined. The authors sampled 598 participants aged 45 years or more from a recent population-based survey in southwest Nigeria (190 rural men and women, 205 urban poor men and women, and 203 retired railway workmen). The estimated mean age was 61 (10) years. Mean pressures were low relative to westernized societies : systolic blood pressure=124 (24) mmHg, diastolic blood pressure=72 (13) mmHg. Both men and women were remarkably lean : body mass index=21.3 (3.6) and 23.0 (5.2) kg/m2, respectively. Hypertension prevalence increased across the gradient from rural farmers to urban poor to railway workers : 14,25, and 29 percent, respectively, had a blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg or greater, and 3,11, and 14 percent, respectively, had a blood pressure of 160/95 mmHg or greater (p for trend
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