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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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HPT & Race
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  1. A.G.M.GMarch 12, 2010 at 5:16 AM

    this one is a study about DM, but there is data about HPT among the main 3 races in Singapore. I guess it's also associated with DM. maybe it'll help.

    www.sma.org.sg/smj/4504/4504a1.pdf

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  2. A.G.M.GMarch 12, 2010 at 5:22 AM

    "Malay have higher mortality rates from hypertensive disease than Chinese and Indians in both sexes..."

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1060592/

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  3. A.G.M.GMarch 12, 2010 at 5:28 AM

    "The high blood pressure (hypertension) level of adults declined from 21.5% in 1998 to 20.1% in 2004. A higher proportion of men were hypertensive (24.5%) compared to women (15.9%). Among the ethnic groups, the hypertension level was highest in the Chinese (20.8%), compared with Malays (18.1%) and Indians (16.7%). The decline in percentage of Malay females suffering from high blood pressure was most significant compared to females in other ethnic groups (from 27% in 1998 to 18% in 2004).

    Among those found to have hypertension, the proportion of previously-undiagnosed hypertensives declined from 55.0% in 1998 to 39.7% in 2004."

    http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/pressreleases.aspx?id=1440

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