Educational level and hypertension: how socioeconomic differences condition health care

Journal of Human Hypertension
M A TedescoA Iacono

Abstract

This is the first European study that has evaluated educational level in a large sample of hypertensive outpatients. We established the educational level of the hypertensive outpatients in our unit, and determined whether the awareness of hypertension and its organ damage was education-related. We analysed data from 812 consecutive outpatients (378 men, mean age 50 +/- 10 years) with essential stage I-II hypertension. Subjects were subdivided into two categories: group A subjects were highly educated; group B subjects had a little education. Data were compared with educational level from the 1991 population census for the Campania region (ISTAT data) and with 200 type 2 diabetes patients (96 men, mean age 51 +/- 9 years) from the nearest diabetes unit. For each hypertensive patient we considered clinical, echocardiographic and biochemical parameters. Data from the last census showed a high percentage (80%) of subjects with low education. The percentage of type 2 diabetic patients with little education was high (190 patients, 95%). Conversely, it is somewhat surprising that most hypertensive patients reached high standards of education and worked at sedentary jobs (group A: 736 patients, 91%; P < 0.0001). Multivariate analysis s...Continue Reading

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