health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential …. I find that infant mortality at birth is positively related to hypertension, even allowing for cohort effects, and … the hypertension rate of between 3 and 6 percentage points, for the cohort born 1931-1935, relative to the cohort born …

diagnosis of hypertension and its medication. In the Indonesian Family Life Survey, about 45% of all respondents over the age of … 39 were found to suffer from hypertension (average systolic blood pressure higher than 140). However, more than half of … the people with hypertension have never been diagnosed by a health care professional, and only a small fraction of the …

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the … schooling reduces the probability of developing subsequent hypertension by approximately 7-12% points; the result which holds … and negative bias in the probit estimates of schooling-hypertension relationship for the male subsample. …

hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …

of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using …

hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …

hypertension diagnosis, with larger and more precisely estimated effects for males, middle-age individuals (as opposed to older … individuals who at baseline report a previous hypertension diagnosis. Overall, our analysis suggests that the effectiveness of the …

many participants who were told their blood-pressure was high went on to get a formal diagnosis of hypertension from a … medical practitioner. The effect of getting a formal hypertension diagnosis was to reduce the incidence of smoking and improve …

specific, we use preventive care utilization and hypertension management as key indicators to assess the performance of disease … prevention, hypertension awareness and management. These findings reveal the vulnerability of older adults with CI in disease …

We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …