(Press-News.org) Just 1 in 14 adults across 55 LMICs who have both hypertension and diabetes have both conditions under adequate control, with only 20-30% of patients taking medications, indicating a lack of adequate healthcare in these settings.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003019
Article Title: Multiple cardiovascular risk factor care in 55 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional analysis of nationally-representative, individual-level data from 280,783 adults
Author Countries: Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Denmark, Eswatini, Georgia, Germany, Lebanon, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Nepal, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United States
Funding: Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health McLennan Fund: Dean's Challenge Grant Program and the EU's Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. There are no grant numbers. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Just 1 in 14 adults across 55 LMICs who have both hypertension and diabetes have both conditions under adequate control
2024-03-27
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