Socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: evidence from the PERSIAN cohort study

• Main Authors: Mahin Amini (Author), Mahdi Moradinazar (Author), Fatemeh Rajati (Author), Moslem Soofi (Author), Sadaf G. Sepanlou (Author), Hossein Poustchi (Author), Sareh Eghtesad (Author), Mahmood Moosazadeh (Author), Javad Harooni (Author), Javad Aghazadeh-Attari (Author), Majid Fallahi (Author), Mohammad Reza Fattahi (Author), Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam (Author), Farhad Moradpour (Author), Azim Nejatizadeh (Author), Mehdi Shahmoradi (Author), Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei (Author), Alireza Ostadrahimi (Author), Ali Ahmadi (Author), Arsalan Khaledifar (Author), Mohammad Hossien Saghi (Author), Nader Saki (Author), Iraj Mohebbi (Author), Reza Homayounfar (Author), Mojtaba Farjam (Author), Ali Esmaeili Nadimi (Author), Mahmood Kahnooji (Author), Farhad Pourfarzi (Author), Bijan Zamani (Author), Abbas Rezaianzadeh (Author), Masoumeh Ghoddusi Johari (Author), Masoud Mirzaei (Author), Ali Dehghani (Author), Seyed Fazel Zinat Motlagh (Author), Zahra Rahimi (Author), Reza Malekzadeh (Author), Farid Najafi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Elevated blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular disease, stroke and chronic kidney disease. In this study, we examined the socioeconomic inequality and its related factors in prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control (ATC) of hypertension (HTN) in Iran. Method The st...