Exploring educational inequalities in hypertension control, salt knowledge and awareness, and patient advice: insights from the WHO STEPS surveys of adults from nine Eastern European and Central Asian countries

• Main Authors: Katerina Maximova (Author), Enrique Loyola Elizondo (Author), Holly Rippin (Author), João Breda (Author), Francesco P Cappuccio (Author), Morteza Hajihosseini (Author), Kremlin Wickramasinghe (Author), Irina Novik (Author), Vital Pisaryk (Author), Lela Sturua (Author), Ainura Akmatova (Author), Galina Obreja (Author), Saodat Azimzoda Mustafo (Author), Banu Ekinci (Author), Toker Erguder (Author), Shukhrat Shukurov (Author), Gahraman Hagverdiyev (Author), Diana Andreasyan (Author), Carina Ferreira-Borges (Author), Nino Berdzuli (Author), Stephen Whiting (Author), Natalia Fedkina (Author), Ivo Rakovac (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: To inform strategies aimed at improving blood pressure (BP) control and reducing salt intake, we assessed educational inequalities in high blood pressure (HBP) awareness, treatment and control; physician's advice on salt reduction; and salt knowledge, perceptions and consump...