Research Article
A Community-Based Assessment of Hypertension and Some Other Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
Table 1
Distribution of high blood pressure by age, marital status, and gender.
| | Variable | Total, | High blood pressure | | Men, (%) | Women, (%) | Total, (%) | Proportion of the study population (%) |
| | Age (years) | | | | | | | <30 | 319 | 18 (5.64) | 12 (3.76) | 30 (9.40) | 4.29 | | 30–39 | 123 | 2 (1.63) | 10 (8.13) | 12 (9.76) | 1.71 | | 40–49 | 87 | 13 (14.94) | 11 (12.64) | 24 (27.59) | 3.43 | | ≥50 | 171 | 34 (19.88) | 43 (25.15) | 77 (45.03) | 11.00 | | Marital status | | | | | | | Unmarried | 253 | 16 (6.32) | 10 (3.95) | 26 (10.28) | 3.71 | | Married | 426 | 46 (10.80) | 59 (13.85) | 105 (24.65) | 15.00 | | Widowed | 6 | 3 (50.00) | 1 (16.67) | 4 (66.67) | 0.57 | | Divorced | 15 | 2 (13.33) | 6 (40.00) | 8 (53.33) | 1.14 | | Profession | | | | | | | Farmers | 34 | 2 (5.88) | 2 (5.88) | 4 (11.76) | 0.57 | | Drivers | 26 | 5 (19.23) | 0 (0.00) | 5 (19.23) | 0.71 | | Traders | 139 | 19 (13.67) | 3 (2.16) | 22 (15.83) | 0.03 | | Students | 125 | 9 (7.20) | 7 (5.60) | 16 (12.80) | 2.28 | | Household workers | 224 | 22 (9.82) | 45 (20.09) | 67 (29.91) | 9.57 | | Civil servants | 117 | 0 (0.00) | 7 (5.98) | 7 (6.19) | 1.00 | | Unemployed | 35 | 10 (28.57) | 2 (5.71) | 12 (34.29) | 1.71 | | Level of education | | | | | | | Uneducated | 92 | 3 (3.26) | 8 (8.70) | 11 (11.96) | 1.57 | | Coranic | 107 | 16 (14.95) | 18 (16.82) | 34 (31.78) | 4.86 | | Primary | 121 | 8 (6.61) | 20 (16.53) | 28 (23.14) | 4.00 | | Secondary | 288 | 32 (11.11) | 26 (9.03) | 58 (20.14) | 8.29 | | Higher | 92 | 8 (8.70) | 4 (4.35) | 12 (13.04) | 1.71 | | Religion | | | | | | | Atheist | 2 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0.00 | | Christian | 235 | 17 (7.23) | 18 (7.66) | 35 (14.89) | 5.00 | | Muslim | 463 | 50 (10.80) | 58 (12.53) | 108 (23.33) | 15.42 |
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