Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among ethnoracial minorities in France: results from the CONSTANCES cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Race/ethnicity, combined with sex, is an important determinant of hypertension prevalence and management in high-income countries, but data for France are lacking. This study aims to explore hypertension prevalence and each stage of the cascade of care (i.e., awareness, treatment, and control), at the intersection of sex and race/ethnicity in a French cohort.

Design

We used data from the population-based CONSTANCES cohort, linked with the French National Health Data System.

Participants

180 459 individuals were included, aged 18-69 (mean age 47, SD: 13), among which 53% (n=95 395) women and 81% (n=145 983) of the majority group, and 4.9% (n=8 775) of North African, 1.2% (n=2 220) of sub-Saharan African (SSA), 1.2% (n=2 204) of Asian, 1.4% (n=4 462) o

SUBMITTER: Silberzan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12458881 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature