{"id":1260,"date":"2024-08-16T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/?post_type=publicatie&#038;p=1260"},"modified":"2024-08-16T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T11:25:40","slug":"ethnic-differences-in-hypertension-prevalence-and-contributing-determinants-the-helius-study","status":"publish","type":"publicatie","link":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/publicatie\/ethnic-differences-in-hypertension-prevalence-and-contributing-determinants-the-helius-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic differences in hypertension prevalence and contributing determinants &#8211; the HELIUS study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Aims:&nbsp;<\/strong>There are important ethnic differences in the prevalence of hypertension and hypertension-mediated cardiovascular complications, but there is ongoing debate on the nature of these differences. We assessed the contribution of lifestyle, socio-economic and psychosocial variables to ethnic differences in hypertension prevalence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Methods:&nbsp;<\/strong>We used cross-sectional data from the Healthy Life In an Urban Setting (HELIUS) study, including 21,520 participants aged 18-70 years of South-Asian Surinamese ( n = 3032), African Surinamese ( n = 4124), Ghanaian ( n = 2331), Turkish ( n = 3594), Moroccan ( n = 3891) and Dutch ( n = 4548) ethnic origin. Ethnic differences in hypertension prevalence rates were examined using logistic regression models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results:&nbsp;<\/strong>After adjustment for a broad range of variables, significant higher hypertension prevalence compared to the Dutch population remained in Ghanaian men (odds ratio 2.62 (95% confidence interval 2.14-3.22)) and women (4.16 (3.39-5.12)), African Surinamese men (1.62 (1.37-1.92)) and women (2.70 (2.29-3.17)) and South-Asian Surinamese men (1.22 (1.15-1.46)) and women (1.84 (1.53-2.22)). In contrast, Turkish men (0.72 (0.60-0.87)) and Moroccan men (0.50 (0.41-0.61)) and women (0.57 (0.46-0.71)) had a lower hypertension prevalence compared with the Dutch population. The differences in hypertension prevalence were present across different age groups and persisted after stratification for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:&nbsp;<\/strong>Large ethnic differences in hypertension prevalence exist that are already present in young adulthood. Adjustment for common variables known to be associated with a higher risk of hypertension explained the higher adjusted prevalence rates among Turks and Moroccans, but not in African and South-Asian descent populations who remained to have a higher rate of hypertension compared to the Dutch host population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims:&nbsp;There are important ethnic differences in the prevalence of hypertension and hypertension-mediated cardiovascular complications, but there is ongoing debate on the nature of these differences. We assessed the contribution of lifestyle, socio-economic and psychosocial variables to ethnic differences in hypertension prevalence. Methods:&nbsp;We used cross-sectional data from the Healthy Life In an Urban Setting (HELIUS) study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"publications_year":[34],"thema":[42],"class_list":["post-1260","publicatie","type-publicatie","status-publish","hentry","publications_year-34","thema-cardiovascular-disease"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publicatie"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publications_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications_year?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"thema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thema?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}