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Heart Attacks Consequence of Undetected High Blood Pressure
Medical researchers from the University set out to determine why death rates from coronary heart disease (heart attacks) varied around the country and found that living in a deprived area contributed to your risk.
The study has for the first time established an association at national level between detection of hypertension and death rates from coronary heart disease.
The Leicester team, from the Department of Health Sciences, analysed whether variations in deaths between different parts of the country could be explained by characteristics of primary health care services (such as numbers of doctors, performance against national targets), as well as by characteristics of the population, such as deprivation, lifestyle (such as smoking), or the numbers of people with diabetes
Their findings have been published in the November 10 issue of JAMA.
Lead research and report author Dr. Steve Levene, of the University of Leicester and a city GP, said: "We found that population characteristics were most important, including deprivation; however, 10% of the variation was also explained by how successful primary care services are at detecting people who have high blood pressure (hypertension). People who have hypertension are at greater risk of having heart attacks. No other health service factor that we examined was associated with the variation. Our results were the same for 3 consecutive years, 2006, 2007 & 2008.
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