Table 2.

Crude and age-standardized prevalence of hypertension according to sex and place of residence.

Region	Sex								Site
	Men				Women				Rural				Urban
	N	nHT	Crude %	Adjusted* %	N	nHT	Crude %	Adjusted %	N	nHT	Crude %	Adjusted %	N	nHT	Crude %	Adjusted %
N/Central	361	87	24.1	23.0	292	53	18.2	18.6	196	39	19.9	20.0	457	101	22.1	22.1
N/East	470	120	25.5	24.3	600	168	28.0	29.9	788	192	24.4	25.0	282	96	34.0	34.2
N/West	349	69	19.8	21.5	360	95	26.4	30.4	398	109	27.4	28.2	311	55	17.7	17.5
S/East	162	71	43.8	38.0	327	181	55.4	59.5	176	91	51.7	53.1	313	161	51.4	52.2
S/South	240	98	40.8	41.1	303	138	45.5	46.8	321	144	44.9	45.1	222	92	41.4	41.6
S/West	233	89	38.2	37.5	495	215	43.4	44.1	295	129	43.7	44.4	433	175	40.4	41.1
Overall	1815	543	29.4	31.8	2377	850	35.8	41.8	2174	704	32.4	37.5	2018	680	33.7	39.2

N = Number in group; nHT = Number of Hypertensive subjects. * Standardized to the 2006 National Population Census.