Table 5.
Prevalence of true hypertension (BP ≥ 140/90 mmHg or use of BP drugs), awareness of hypertension and BP ≥ 140/90 mmHg by the occurrence of stressor exposures and psychological distress evaluated by the faces scale (N = 1484)
| Characteristics |
N |
True hypertension* N = 600 (40.4%) |
P |
Awareness of hypertension N = 489 (33%) |
P |
BP ≥ 140/90 mmHg N = 394 (26.5%) |
P |
|
| Any event | No | 913 | 404 (44.2) | < 0.01 | 317 (34.7) | 0.07 | 267 (29.2) | < 0.01 |
| Yes | 571 | 196 (34.3) | 172 (30.1) | 127 (22.2) | ||||
| Any death | No | 1270 | 495 (39.0) | < 0.01 | 404 (31.8) | 0.02 | 328 (25.8) | 0.12 |
| Yes | 214 | 105 (49.1) | 85 (39.7) | 66 (30.8) | ||||
| Major illness | No | 1335 | 548 (41.0) | 0.15 | 438 (32.8) | 0.73 | 362 (27.1) | 0.14 |
| Yes | 32 | 52 (34.9) | 51 (34.2) | 32 (21.5) | ||||
| Loss of job | No | 1339 | 569 (42.5) | < 0.01 | 459 (34.3) | < 0.01 | 373 (27.9) | < 0.01 |
| Yes | 145 | 31 (21.4) | 30 (20.7) | 21 (14.5) | ||||
| Death in the family | No | 1341 | 531 (39.6) | 0.05 | 433 (32.3) | 0.10 | 349 (26) | 0.16 |
| Yes | 143 | 69 (48.3) | 56 (39.2) | 45 (31.5) | ||||
| Divorce | No | 1394 | 583 (41.8) | < 0.01 | 473 (33.9) | < 0.01 | 382 (27.4) | < 0.01 |
| Yes | 90 | 17 (18.9) | 16 (17.8) | 12 (13.3) | ||||
| Severe accident | No | 1413 | 576 (40.8) | 0.24 | 472 (33.4) | 0.10 | 378 (26.8) | 0.43 |
| Yes | 71 | 24 (33.8) | 17 (23.9) | 16 (22.5) | ||||
| Friend death | No | 1416 | 563 (39.8) | < 0.01 | 459 (32.4) | 0.05 | 372 (26.3) | 0.27 |
| Yes | 68 | 37 (54.4) | 30 (44.1) | 22 (32.4) | ||||
| Violence | No | 1443 | 592 (41.0) | < 0.01 | 480 (33.3) | 0.13 | 389 (27) | 0.04 |
| Yes | 41 | 8 (19.5) | 9 (22.0) | 5 (12.2) | ||||
| Migration | No | 1450 | 594 (41.0) | < 0.01 | 482 (33.2) | 0.12 | 390 (26.9) | 0.05 |
| Yes | 34 | 6 (17.6) | 7 (20.6) | 4 (11.8) | ||||
| Death of spouse | No | 1470 | 595 (40.5) | 0.72 | 485 (33.1) | 0.73 | 390 (26.5) | 0.86 |
| Yes | 14 | 5 (35.7) | 4 (28.6) | 4 (26.5) | ||||
| Faces | 0.03** | < 0.01** | 0.92** | |||||
| Extremely content | 259 | 112 (43.2) | 85 (32.8) | 79 (30.5) | ||||
| Very content | 458 | 160 (34.9) | 123 (26.9) | 108 (23.6) | ||||
| Content | 377 | 156 (41.4) | 123 (32.6) | 104 (27.6) | ||||
| Neutral | 159 | 62 (39.0) | 54 (34.05) | 41 (25.8) | ||||
| Discontent | 114 | 52 (45.6) | 45 (39.5) | 28 (24.6) | ||||
| Very discontent | 57 | 24 (42.1) | 25 (43.9) | 17 (29.8) | ||||
| Extremely discontent | 60 | 34 (56.7) | 34 (56.7) | 17 (28.3) |
* Includes individuals aware of diagnosis with uncontrolled BP and individuals unaware of the diagnosis
** P for linear trend