Tuyển tập các nghiên cứu khoa học của trường đại học Huế đề tài: Tỷ lệ tăng huyết áp và các yếu tố liên quan đến người cao tuổi trong tỉnh Khánh Hòa, Việt Nam. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Hue University N0 61 2010 HYPERTENSION PREVALENCE AND RELATED FACTORS IN ELDERLY PEOPLE IN KHANH HOA PROVINCE VIETNAM Truong Tan Minh Le Tan Phung et al Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Service SUMMARY Hypertension is one of the major health problems among Elderly People has been investigated by many Vietnam authors. Vietnam Institute of Health Strategy and Policy presented a hypertension percentage of 28 4 among Elderly People of aged 60 years or above in 2006. Based on a systemic randomized sample of Elderly People living in Khanh Hoa Province hypertension prevalence and related factors have been examined. Using cluster sampling with 30 communes seleted from the total of 137 communes of the Khanh Hoa Province authors had chosen a sample of 2 170 Elderly People to measure blood pressure and collect other anthropometric indeces weight height . Correlation and Logistic regression analysis has been used to examine possitive association between anthropometric factors and systolic and mean diastolic blood pressures were statistically different in men and women Elderly People with higher percentage in Men. Mean BMI of Elderly People was with slightly higher in Men but no statistically significant vs . Hypertension prevalence in Elderly People of Khanh Hoa Province was with higher percentage in Men than Women and respectively p 0 002 . The Raglai minority people who are mostly living in the 2 mountainous districts have a relatively low percentage of hypertension . There is an association between hypertension and BMI especially in Women. The survey showed that the prevalence of hypertension among Elderly People in Khanh Hoa in 2008 was 95 CI 46 0 - 50 2 . There were associations between hypertension prevalence with BMI as well as age using multiple regression model with gender plays the role of interaction in the model. Key words Hypertension Elderly People Body Mass Index World Health .
