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Prevalence of hypertension, rate of antihypertensive drugs taking and rate of reaching the target blood pressure in cardiologists with different gender
| Variable | Total (n=28 924) |
Male (n=15 749) |
Female (n=13 175) |
P value |
| Hypertension | 7319 (25.30) | 4574 (29.00) | 2745 (20.83) | <0.001 |
| Taking antihypertensive drugs | 2323 (31.74) | 1533 (33.52) | 790 (28.78) | <0.001 |
| Reaching the target blood pressure | 960 (41.33) | 610 (39.79) | 350 (44.30) | 0.036 |
Data are expressed as n (%).
