Usefulness for surveillance of hypertension prevalence studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: the past 10 years.
Objective. To compare the usefulness for surveillance of the peer-reviewed literature on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean published from 2001 to 2010 with a previous study of the published literature from 1962 to 2000. Methods. A bibliographic search was conducted of...
| Publicado en: | Pan American Journal of Public Health Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 15 - 22 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=78555116&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 78555116 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10204989 55OA jtl: Pan American Journal of Public Health issn: 10204989 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2012 vid: 32 iid: 1 pid: 437 pub: World Health Organization artinfo: ui: 78555116 10.1590/S1020-49892012000700003 ppf: 15 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 140KB tig: atl: Usefulness for surveillance of hypertension prevalence studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: the past 10 years. aug: au: Peña, Melissa S. Burroughs Abdala, Carmen Verônica Mendes Silva, Luis Carlos Ordúñez, Pedro affil: Division of Cardiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Science Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO), São Paulo, Brazil Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Habana, Cuba Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America su: Latin America Caribbean Hypertension Medical informatics Computers in medicine sug: subj: Hypertension Latin America Caribbean Medical informatics Computers in medicine keyword: Caribbean region cross epidemiological surveillance risk factors sectional studies América Latina factores de riesgo Hipertensión región del Caribe salud pública vigilancia Caribbean region cross epidemiological surveillance risk factors sectional studies América Latina factores de riesgo Hipertensión región del Caribe salud pública vigilancia ab: Objective. To compare the usefulness for surveillance of the peer-reviewed literature on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean published from 2001 to 2010 with a previous study of the published literature from 1962 to 2000. Methods. A bibliographic search was conducted of publications from 2001 to 2010 that examined the prevalence of hypertension using MEDLINE and LILACS databases. The methodology of each paper was evaluated with the same critical appraisal tool used in the previous study. Results. A total of 81 papers were published from 2001 to 2010 on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean. Only 24 of these studies met the minimum methodologic criteria for evaluation. While the total number of studies published in the past 10 years exceeds the number published from 1962 to 2000, the percentage of studies that met the minimum methodologic criteria has not substantially increased. In addition to major methodologic shortcomings, less than 46% of the published studies reported rates of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension. The hypertension prevalence estimates from the peer-reviewed literature range from 7% to 49%. These studies were primarily done in urban centers and are not evenly distributed throughout the region. Conclusions. The quality and geographic distribution of the published literature on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean are inadequate. Research resources and efforts should be directed in the future toward closing this gap. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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