[Systemic hypertension in black African in Niamey: a study from 180 in-patients (author's transl)].
In Niger, systemic hypertension is responsible for almost 10 p. 100 of the hospital admittances, and for 1 out of 2 or 3 cases of cardiovascular disease. There is no patent correlation with sex, except that the age of maximal frequency is between 40 and 50 for females and after 50 for males. Clinical and etiological features are conventional but present two original points: the young age of many patients, and the frequency of intestinal nephropathies. As Nigerian patients are often middle-class people or civil-servants, one may suspect a correlation between frequency of systemic hypertension and social evolution.
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009548:Niger
L'hypertension artérielle chez le noir africain a Niamey. A propos de 180 malades hospitalises.