Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension Among Adolescents in a Rural Community of North India

V M, Sumna; Malhotra, Sumit; Gupta, Sanjeev; Goswami, Kiran; Salve, Harshal R

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“…Our study ndings have important public health implications for India's NP-NCD. First, although the prevalence of hypertension among older adolescents in India is signi cantly lower compared to both young and middle-aged adults (NFHS-5), and older and elderly adults (LASI), a majority of adolescents remain undiagnosed [48,49]. Unfortunately, screening of hypertension for adolescents in India is not uniformly mandated, neither opportunistically, nor through the community-based screening approach by frontline health workers which is advocated only for adults.…”

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Decoding the Hypertension Care Cascade and Unlocking Influential Factors Among Indian Adolescents: Evidence from Nationally representative Cross-sectional survey

Basu,

Roy,

Malik

2024

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Adolescent hypertension in India is an emergent public health concern due to a combination of increasing obesity, poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and genetics with lack of programmatic focus on regular screening secondary to reduced perceived risk, both amongst individuals and healthcare providers. This study aims assess the hypertension care cascade and their determinants among older adolescents in India. We used data from the demographic and health surveillance (DHS) comprising India’s National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (2019–2021). The hypertension prevalence, proportions of aware, on treatment, and under control among adolescents in the age group of 15–19 years were reported, along with (95% CI) and statistically significance (p < 0.05). The prevalence of hypertension among 204054 older adolescents (15–19 years) was 5.08% (95% CI: 4.94–5.23%) wherein 42.26% (95% CI: 40.69–43.64%) were aware of their condition while 43.70% (95% CI: 41.73–45.70%) of those aware were receiving treatment, and 85.88% (95% CI: 83.83–87.71%) of those achieved blood pressure control. Overall, there were nearly 60% newly diagnosed hypertension cases detected on screening. In conclusion, nearly five in every hundred older adolescents in India are clinically hypertensive with significantly higher odds linked with obesity and male gender. Awareness and utilization of antihypertensive treatment was lower than the classical rule of halves signifying deficiencies in hypertension screening and management strategies for older adolescents within existing public health policy.

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Decoding the Hypertension Care Cascade and Unlocking Influential Factors Among Indian Adolescents: Evidence from Nationally representative Cross-sectional survey

Basu,

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Malik

2024

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Co-occurrence of non-communicable disease risk factors among adolescents in Jos, Nigeria

Sodipo,

Afolaranmi,

Agbo

et al. 2024

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

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Background The co-occurrence and clustering of risk factors for non-communicable disease (NCD) is a global public health concern. Aim This study aimed to assess the co-occurrence and clustering of risk factors for NCDs among in-school and out-of-school adolescents in Jos North Local Government Area, Plateau State, Nigeria. Setting Secondary schools and markets in Jos North Local Government Area. Methods A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among 377 in-school and 377 out-of-school adolescents, aged 10–19 years of age. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect information on behavioural and physical risk factors for NCDs. Chi-square and Mann–Whitney U tests were used for comparisons at a 5% level of significance. Statistical analysis was carried out using Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) version 23.0. Results Of the 754 sampled adolescents, 386 (51.2%) were females and 368 (48.8%) were males. Adolescents aged 10–14 years made up 37.8% of the participants, 15 to 17 years of age accounted for 46.9% and 18–19 years 15.3%. Risk factors with the highest prevalence were a sedentary lifestyle (94.2%) and an unhealthy diet (92.4%). Majority (97.2%) had two or more risk factors while 1.9% of adolescents had no risk factor. More in-school adolescents (24.1%) had two risk factors compared to 14.1% of out-of-school adolescents ( p < 0.001); 14.1% of out-of-school adolescents had five or more risk factors compared to 2.9% of those in school ( p < 0.001). Conclusion Co-occurrence and clustering of behavioural and physical risk factors was found among both in-school and out-of-school adolescents. Contribution This study highlighted the burden of risk factors for NCDs among both in-school and out-of-school adolescents in the North-Central part of Nigeria. This is especially useful in developing targeted interventions to tackle these risk factors.

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension Among Adolescents in a Rural Community of North India

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Decoding the Hypertension Care Cascade and Unlocking Influential Factors Among Indian Adolescents: Evidence from Nationally representative Cross-sectional survey

Decoding the Hypertension Care Cascade and Unlocking Influential Factors Among Indian Adolescents: Evidence from Nationally representative Cross-sectional survey

Co-occurrence of non-communicable disease risk factors among adolescents in Jos, Nigeria

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