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Using Community-Academic Partnerships and a Creative Expression Contest to Engage Youth in the Development of Communication Materials for Promoting Behaviors That Prevent COVID-19
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uncontrolled hypertension leading modifiable risk factor cardiovascular disease morbidity mortality despite availability several effective blood pressure lowering drugs hypertension control rates remain poor globally study aimed define level blood pressure control determine factors associated poor hypertension control hospitalbased crosssectional study conducted january march 2019 tikur anbessa specialized hospital among randomly selected 369 patients hypertension data collected using pretested structured questionnaire multivariate binary logistic regression used identify determinants blood pressure control mean sd age study participants 555 132 years 188 509 males 28 76 active smokers half patients 560 overweight obese commonly identified comorbidities diabetes mellitus 480 dyslipidemia 509 chronic kidney disease 561 mean sd systolic blood pressure 1406 22 mmhg diastolic blood pressure 858 14 mmhg twothirds patients 602 uncontrolled blood pressure factors associated poor blood pressure control aor 95 ci increasing age 105 100111 increasing household income 125 104149 physically inactive 764 1145113 chronic kidney disease 536 114516 use home blood pressure monitoring 031 0102094 rate blood pressure control patients hypertension suboptimal age household income level physical activity chronic kidney disease use home blood pressure monitoring independent predictors blood pressure control important optimize treatment hypertension highrisk group implementing effective strategies