作者: Mohammad Ziaul Islam Chowdhury , Meshbahur Rahman , Tanjila Akter , Tania Akhter , Arifa Ahmed
DOI: 10.1186/S40885-020-00143-1
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摘要: Hypertension, itself being a major chronic condition, is one of the most significant risk factors for premature cardiovascular diseases and mortality. Hypertension responsible 13% global deaths three-quarters world’s hypertensive population reside in low- middle-income countries. Bangladesh those countries that experiencing an epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases, nutritional traditional diet process fast food, increase sedentary lifestyle, resulting increased hypertension prevalence. We carried out systematic review meta-analysis identify existing research on prevalence Bangladesh, summarize findings assess its temporal change. searched MEDLINE, EMBASE PubMed relevant references studies Bangladesh. used Random-effects pool estimates performed subgroup analyses. assessed heterogeneity, trend publication bias selected studies. Our search initially identified 735 articles after removing duplicates, reviewing titles abstracts, screening full texts, 53 were finally selected. The comprised 305,432 subjects reported overall, gender-specific, geographical location specific criteria hypertension. range 1.10% 75.0% overall weighted pooled 20.0%. An extremely high heterogeneity (I2 = 99.53%; Cochran Q-statistic p < 0.001) was observed Consequently, we analysis based gender, age group study participants, cut-off level define hypertension, types presented our accordingly. increasing also observed. rising Strategies targeting prevention are required mitigate further reduce morbidity mortality associated with it.