Prevalence of primary and secondary hypertension among hospitalized patients with cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT: BackgroundHypertension is the most common comorbidity in patients with cancer. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of hypertension by demographic characteristics and cancer type among hospitalized patients with cancer.MethodsHospitalized cancer patients were included using 2016-2018 National Inpatient Sample data. The independent variable was the presence of hypertension, which was further classified as primary, secondary, and other hypertension. Patient characteristics were grouped by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and the 12 most common cancer types. Multinomial logistic regression was used.ResultsAmong 638,670 hospitalized patients with cancer, 56.8% had hypertension. The predicted percentages of having any hypertension were higher with age, male gender, and black race. The predicted percent

SUBMITTER: Park C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969873 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature