Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia

Hypertension is highly prevalent in the older people. Chronic disease care is a major burden in the public primary care clinics in Malaysia. Good blood pressure (BP) control is needed to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to determine the status o...

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Main Authors:	Cheong Ai Theng, Shariff-Ghazali Sazlina, Tong Seng Fah, Abdul Samad Azah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia 2015-07-01
Series:	Malaysian Family Physician
Subjects:	Blood pressure older people hypertension primary care Malaysia
Online Access:	http://e-mfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/original-article-2.pdf

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spelling	doaj-fa4ac0dae96e4c2c9ece529388bf18d22020-11-24T23:05:55ZengAcademy of Family Physicians of MalaysiaMalaysian Family Physician1985-22742015-07-011011925Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in MalaysiaCheong Ai Theng0Shariff-Ghazali Sazlina1Tong Seng Fah2Abdul Samad Azah3Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra, MalaysiaFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra MalaysiaFaculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKlinik Kesihatan TanglinHypertension is highly prevalent in the older people. Chronic disease care is a major burden in the public primary care clinics in Malaysia. Good blood pressure (BP) control is needed to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to determine the status of BP control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension in public primary care clinics.http://e-mfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/original-article-2.pdfBlood pressureolder peoplehypertensionprimary careMalaysia
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spellingShingle	Cheong Ai Theng Shariff-Ghazali Sazlina Tong Seng Fah Abdul Samad Azah Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia Malaysian Family Physician Blood pressure older people hypertension primary care Malaysia
author_facet	Cheong Ai Theng Shariff-Ghazali Sazlina Tong Seng Fah Abdul Samad Azah
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title	Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia
title_short	Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia
title_full	Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia
title_sort	poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: a cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in malaysia
publisher	Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia
series	Malaysian Family Physician
issn	1985-2274
publishDate	2015-07-01
description	Hypertension is highly prevalent in the older people. Chronic disease care is a major burden in the public primary care clinics in Malaysia. Good blood pressure (BP) control is needed to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to determine the status of BP control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension in public primary care clinics.
topic	Blood pressure older people hypertension primary care Malaysia
url	http://e-mfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/original-article-2.pdf
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Poor blood pressure control and its associated factors among older people with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in six public primary care clinics in Malaysia

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