Hypertension incidence among middle-aged and older adults: findings from a 5-year prospective study in rural South Africa, 2010-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is a scarcity of longitudinal cohort studies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease as a basis for intervention. We estimated incident hypertension and associated sociodemographic, health and behavioural risk factors in a population aged 40 years and older over a 5-year period.

Design

We assessed the association between incident hypertension and sociodemographic, health and behavioural factors using Poisson regression. We adjusted for non-response in 2015 using inverse probability sampling weights from a logistic regression including sex and age at baseline.

Setting

Rural South Africa.

Participants

We used a population-based cohort of normotensive adults in 2010 who were aged 40 years and older at retest

SUBMITTER: Houle B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655592 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature