Table 4.
Prevalence of hypertension, rate of antihypertensive drugs taking and rate of reaching the target blood pressure in cardiologists with different age
| Variable | Total (n=28 924) |
20–29 (n=5308) |
30–39 (n=12 338) |
40–49 (n=8019) |
50–59 (n=2674) |
60–69 (n=584) |
≥70 (n=1) |
P value |
| Hypertension | 7319 (25.3) | 1276 (24.04) | 2680 (21.72) | 2158 (26.91) | 946 (35.38) | 258 (44.18) | 1 (100) | <0.001 |
| Taking antihypertensive drugs | 2323 (31.74) | 256 (20.06) | 738 (27.54) | 806 (37.35) | 397 (41.97) | 126 (48.84) | 0 | <0.001 |
| Reaching the target blood pressure | 960 (41.33) | 124 (48.44) | 322 (43.63) | 336 (41.69) | 130 (32.75) | 48 (38.10) | – | 0.001 |
Data are expressed as n (%).