Individual and area-level socioeconomic correlates of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Date
2023
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BMC
Abstract
Hypertension is the second leading risk factor for death in South Africa, and rates have steadily
increased since the end of Apartheid. Research on the determinants of hypertension in South Africa has received
considerable attention due to South Africa’s rapid urbanization and epidemiological transition. However, scant work
has been conducted to investigate how various segments of the Black South African population experience this
transition. Identifying the correlates of hypertension in this population is critical to the development of policies and
targeted interventions to strengthen equitable public health efforts. This analysis explores the relationship between individual and area-level socioeconomic status and
hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control within a sample of 7,303 Black South Africans in three
municipalities of the uMgungundlovu district in KwaZulu-Natal province: the Msunduzi, uMshwathi, and Mkhambathini.
Cross-sectional data were collected on participants from February 2017 to February 2018.
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Public health, Hypertension, Socioeconomic, Race, South Africa
Citation
Madela, S. et al. (2023). Individual and area-level socioeconomic correlates of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 417. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15247-0