focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health … that they have hypertension as a chronic health condition compared to that from repeated measurements by a trained nurse …. Around 85% of individuals measured as having hypertension do not report having it as a chronic illness. Importantly, we find …

The present work studies the incidence of obesity and socioeconomic status on the prevalence of hypertension on the … from hypertension in 50 percentage points. This effect should have been understated in the probit estimation. At the same … morbidity (presence of chronic disease hypertension), and low socioeconomic status. Given the fact that the variable that …

We identify a representative sample of U.S. diabetes patients with comorbid hypertension and evaluate health care … hypertension poses an additional burden on patients with diabetes, thus impacting their overall resource utilization. That is …, hypertension and obesity in combination have a greater adverse impact on health care expenditures than individually. More than one …

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 …

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 …

outcomes and expenditures for patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in three cities. We hypothesized that treating … outcomes, measured as mean arterial pressure for hypertension and plasma glucose for diabetes, were similar for patients …

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. …

focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health … that they have hypertension as a chronic health condition compared to that from repeated measurements by a trained nurse …. Around 85% of individuals measured as having hypertension do not report having it as a chronic illness. Importantly, we find …

Background: Success in treating hypertension is greater in clinical trials than in actual practice. To prospectively … objective of the Caring for Hypertension on Initiation: Costs and Effectiveness (CHOICE) study was to evaluate the feasibility … of performing a naturalistic study in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension in terms of enrollment, adequacy, and …