Prevalence and factors associated with hypertension among adults in rural Sylhet district of Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.

Rasheda KhanamSalahuddin AhmedSayedur RahmanGulam Muhammed Al KibriaJafar Raza Rizvi SyedAhad Mahmud KhanSyed Mamun Ibne MoinMalathi RamDustin Garrett GibsonGeorge PariyoAbdullah H Baquinull null

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

In view of the high burden of hypertension and prehypertension, a context-specific scalable public health programme including behaviour change communications, particularly to increase physical activity and consumption of healthy diet, as well as identification and management of hypertension needs to be developed and implemented.

Keyphrases

physical activity
blood pressure
public health
risk factors
south africa
randomized controlled trial
body mass index
depressive symptoms
sleep quality