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Afr. j. biomed. res
; 8(1): 15-19, 2005. ilus
Artigo
em Inglês
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1256795
RESUMO
A worksite study of hypertension prevalence was carried out in a university community in Southwestern Nigeria. Overall crude prevalence was 21% in the respondent population. About 16% of these were already on treatment with medicines. The study established no significant (p>0.05) relationship between coffee consumption and hypertension.Prevalence was 32% in subjects with over 3 children, while among subjects witheye problem, diabetics and those who took local kola nutsand it was 18.6%, 1.9% and 7.4%, respectively. There is need for increased awareness of the disease and other cardiovascular risk factors within the populace and to encourage the possession or provision of self-measurement blood pressure devices