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- Published on: 4 April 2018
- Published on: 4 April 2018Comment on: Prevalence and distribution of hypertension and related risk factors in Jilin Province, China 2015: a cross-sectional study
First I would thank Wu J et al, for publishing their research on prevalence of hypertension & its associated risk factors in your esteemed journal and this work is of high public health priority. There is no mention on the study setting where the blood pressure was actually measured, as the variability can be expected in settings like clinic where there is a chance of white coat hypertension which might not be there if measured at home by the health worker. Though the variability in blood pressure would be taken care by taking average of three readings, maintaining uniformity in study setting would offer high internal validity. In the methodology section, there is no mention on exclusion criteria and if pregnant women were included into the study as they are of different risk profile. Behavioral factors like smoking/alcohol intake were captured through face to face interview; hence social desirability can play a role in the risk factor ascertainment. Another interesting fact about this study was current tobacco smokers were estimated as 37% (in males) vs. 8% (in females) which is different to that of China’s national level estimate of 52% (in males) and 2.7% (in females) based on Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS, 2015). Though both GATS and this study adopted same interview technique in assessing smoking behavior, still this region estimates varies with the national level data. In discussion, authors have highlighted increased insurance coverage could have impacted o...
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