Oqab Jabali, Abed Alkarim Ayyoub, Shaden Jabali
Navigating health challenges: the interplay between occupation-imposed movement restrictions, healthcare access, and community resilience
BMC public health
background objectives prehypertension hypertension common cardiovascular disorders worldwide increasingly considered one serious public health problems particularly developing countries objective study determine frequency demographic socioeconomic predictors prehypertension hypertension adults serbia examine relationship prehypertension hypertension health behavior determinants smoking alcohol use physical activity individual aspects health health selfassessment multimorbidity bmi depressive symptoms materials methods research part fourth national population health survey conducted 2019 conducted republic institute statistics cooperation institute public health serbia ministry health republic serbia research instrument questionnaires used accordance methodology european health survey purposes research data adult population aged 20 used results women reduced risk prehypertension 0328 hypertension 0349 nearly 70 similarly aged 60 years lower risk prehypertension younger 40 years lower risk hypertension 0995 whereas people lower education 43 times higher risk prehypertension 4323 16 times higher risk hypertension 1614 poor 14 times higher risk prehypertension 1413 1 times higher risk hypertension 1035 people multimorbidity 12 times higher risk prehypertension 1218 48 times higher risk hypertension 4867 conclusions male gender lower education poverty age presence multimorbidity significant predictors prehypertension hypertension serbian adult population preventive strategies aimed sensitive population groups