Table 5.
Prevalence of hypertension, rate of antihypertensive drugs taking and rate of reaching the target blood pressure in cardiologists with different hospital level
| Variable | Total (n=28 924) |
Primary (n=381) |
Secondary (n=10 823) |
Tertiary (n=17 375) |
Others (n=345) |
P value |
| Hypertension | 7319 (25.30) | 136 (35.70) | 2695 (24.90) | 4413 (25.40) | 75 (21.74) | <0.001 |
| Taking antihypertensive drugs | 2323 (31.74) | 38 (27.94) | 904 (33.43) | 1354 (30.68) | 27 (36.00) | 0.049 |
| Reaching the target blood pressure | 960 (41.33) | 8 (21.05) | 390 (43.14) | 551 (40.69) | 11 (40.74) | 0.048 |
Data are expressed as n (%).