Katerina Maximova, Enrique Loyola Elizondo, Holly Rippin, João Breda, Francesco P Cappuccio, Morteza Hajihosseini, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Irina Novik, Vital Pisaryk, Lela Sturua, Ainura Akmatova, Galina Obreja, Saodat Azimzoda Mustafo, Banu Ekinci, Toker Erguder, Shukhrat Shukurov, Gahraman Hagverdiyev, Diana Andreasyan, Carina Ferreira-Borges, Nino Berdzuli, Stephen Whiting, Natalia Fedkina, Ivo Rakovac
OBJECTIVE: To inform strategies aimed at improving blood pressure control and reducing salt intake, we assessed educational inequalities in high blood pressure (HBP) awareness, treatment and control; physician's advice on salt reduction; and salt knowledge, perceptions and consumption behaviours in eastern Europe and central Asia. DESIGN: Data were collected in cross-sectional, population-based nationally-representative surveys, using a multi-stage clustered sampling design...
February 13, 2023: Public Health Nutrition