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Title
Variations in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among Ghanaian migrants living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and nonmigrant Ghanaians living in rural and urban Ghana - the RODAM study |
Full text
http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/362038 |
Date
2018 |
Author(s)
Agyemang, Charles; Nyaaba, Gertrude; Beune, Erik; Meeks, Karlijn; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis; Addo, Juliet; Aikins, Ama de-Graft; Mockenhaupt, Frank P; Bahendeka, Silver; Danquah, Ina; Schulze, Matthias B.; Galbete, Cecilia; Spranger, Joachim; Agyei-Baffour, Peter; Henneman, Peter; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin|info:eu-repo/dai/nl/182904156; Adeyemo, Adebowale; van Straalen, Jan P.; Commodore-Mensah, Yvonne; Appiah, Lambert T; Smeeth, Liam; Stronks, Karien |
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Hypertension is a major burden among African migrants, but the extent of the differences in prevalence, treatment, and control among similar African migrants and nonmigrants living in different contexts in high-income countries and rural and urban Africa has not yet been assessed. We assessed differences in hypertension prevalence and its management among relatively homogenous African migrants (Ghanaians) living in three European cities (Amsterdam, London, and Berlin) and nonmigrants living in rural and urban Ghana. METHODS: A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted among Ghanaian adults (n = 5659) aged 25-70 years. Comparisons between sites were made using prevalence ratios with adjustment for age, education, and BMI. RESULTS: The age-standardised prevalence of hypertension was 22 and 28% in rural Ghanaian men and women. The prevalence was higher in urban Ghana [men, 34%; adjusted prevalence ratio = 1.37, 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.10-1.70]; and much higher in migrants in Europe, especially in Berlin (men, 57%; prevalence ratio = 2.21, 1.78-2.73; women, 51%; prevalence ratio = 1.74, 1.45-2.09) than in rural Ghana. Hypertension awareness and treatment levels were higher in Ghanaian migrants than in nonmigrant Ghanaians. However, adequate hypertension control was lower in Ghanaian migrant men in Berlin (20%; prevalence ratio = 0.43 95%, 0.23-0.82), Amsterdam (29%; prevalence ratio = 0.59, 0.35-0.99), and London (36%; prevalence ratio = 0.86, 0.49-1.51) than rural Ghanaians (59%). Among women, no differences in hypertension control were observed. About 50% of migrants to 85% of rural Ghanaians with severe hypertension (Blood pressure > 180/110) were untreated. Antihypertensive medication prescription patterns varied considerably by site. CONCLUSION: Hypertension prevalence, awareness, and treatment levels were generally higher in African migrants, but blood pressure control level was lower in Ghanaian migrant men compared with their nonmigrant peers. Further work is needed to identify key underlying factors to support prevention and management efforts.Supplement Figure 1, http://links.lww.com/HJH/A831. |
Subject(s)
ethnic minority groups; Europe; Ghana; hypertension; hypertension therapy; migration; Researchon Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants study; Journal Article |
Language
en |
Relation
0263-6352 |
Type of publication
Article |
Format
text/plain |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/ClosedAccess |
Identifier
Journal of Hypertension 36(1), 169-177 (2018) |
Repository
Utrecht - University of Utrecht
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