Hypertension : prevalance and awareness among selected community at Kota Samarahan district

• Main Authors: Ling, Kok Yung, Nur Azzah Azyyaty, Mazlan, Nurul Atiqah, Hasnan
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011
• Subjects: RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27671/1/Ling.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27671/4/Ling%20Kok%20Yung%20ft.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27671/

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in the year 2003 about 16.7 million people around the globe died due to cardiovascular disease (CYD). Beside hypertension known as one of the cardiovascular risk factor (Kearney et at., 2004). A meta-analysis of data from January 1980 through July 2003 shows that about 43 .9% of men and 32.8% of women around the world found to be hypertensive (Kearney et at., 2004). In the United State of America, about 74.5 million people aged 20 years old and above have high blood pressure; while only 77.6% are aware of their condition (Kearney et al. , 2004).