Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Control of Hypertension Among Adult Hypertensive Patients

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Jun 2

PMID 29855520

Citations 25

Authors

Samaneh Akbarpour

Davood Khalili

Hojjat Zeraati

Mohammad Ali Mansournia

Azra Ramezankhani

Akbar Fotouhi

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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 the prevalence of good lifestyle among patients with controlled hypertension is significantly higher than those who did not control his/her hypertension (32.54% vs. 27.59; p-value = 0.042). In people who were taking antihypertensive medication, adherence to healthy lifestyle did not have any significant relationship with the control of hypertension. The results of this study showed that awareness of hypertension did not improve people's lifestyle. However, those who aware, but not using any antihypertensive medications are able to control his/her level of blood pressure better than those using medications.

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