Healthy lifestyle behaviors and control of hypertension among adult hypertensive patients.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the healthy lifestyle behaviors in hypertensive patients (aware, n = 1364 and not aware, n = 1213) based on 2011 national survey of risk factors of non-communicable disease (SuRFNCD) of Iran. Lifestyle score was calculated based on lifestyle behaviors, including smoking status, nutrition, physical activity status and body mass index separately for each patient. Of all aware patients, 27.79% (22.35-33.64) were adherence to the good lifestyle category. Almost the same percentage 29.24% (23.62-34.86) were observed in patients who were not aware of his/her illness. Moreover, adherence to good lifestyle is significantly higher in those who were aware without using antihypertensive medication (30.52% vs. 27.14%; p-value = 0.033). We also found that th

SUBMITTER: Akbarpour S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5981436 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature