Research Article
A Community-Based Assessment of Hypertension and Some Other Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
Table 2
Distribution of High BP between other CVD risk factors and gender.
| | CVD risk factors | Total, | High blood pressure | | Men, (%) | Women, (%) | Total, (%) | Proportion of study population (%) |
| | Hyperglycaemia | 39 | 9 (23.08) | 9 (23.08) | 18 (46.15) | 2.57 | | Obesity | 67 | 15 (22.39) | 6 (8.96) | 21 (31.34) | 3.00 | | Alcohol consumption | 127 | 8 (6.30) | 5 (3.94) | 13 (10.24) | 1.86 | | Tobacco consumption | 58 | 7 (12.07) | 8 (13.79) | 15 (25.86) | 2.14 | | Physical inactivity | 248 | 21 (8.47) | 38 (15.32) | 59 (23.79) | 8.43 | | Excessive salt consumption | 182 | 12 (6.59) | 24 (13.19) | 36 (19.78) | 5.14 |
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