Medical Care Use and Hypertension

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9104813
AutoresEdward H Wagner (0000-0001-5856-6021, North Carolina Public Schools, autor de correspondencia), JEANNE T WARNER (Department of Social Sciences), CECIL SLOME
Año1980
Volumen18
Número12
Páginas1241-1250
Fecha de publicación1980-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditorialOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198012000-00009
PMID7464302
OpenAlexW2015846134
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas2

We examined the relationship between the use of medical care and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in 2,939 individuals residing in a rural Southern biracial community. The nonuse of medical care, defined as the absence of reported physician visits in the year preceding the survey, increased with higher levels of DBP among those not receiving antihypertensive treatment. Nearly one half of individuals with untreated DBP greater than or equal to 100 mm Hg had not seen a physician in the preceding year, whether aware of their hypertension or not. The association between nonuse of medical care and untreated diastolic hypertension could not be explained by demographic differences or differences in self-reported health. Despite the fact that all were referred for evaluation of their elevated blood pressure, only 28 per cent of moderate hypertensives (DBP greater than or equal to 100 mm Hg) visited their physician in the 3-month period following the survey. In contrast, 27 per cent of those with DBP less than or equal to 99 mm Hg visited their physician, although few were specifically referred

Blood pressure · Diastole · Family medicine · Health care · Medical care · Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes