title: Five-year cumulative incidence of hypertension in adult Croatian population: the CroHort study.
abstract: The aim of this study was to establish a five-year cumulative incidence of arterial hypertension (hereinafter 5-CIAH) and its dependence on initial prehypertension, body weight, age and gender "Croatian Adult Health Cohort Study (CroHort)" data collected during 2003 and 2008 for the 1383 subjects aged 18 + with initially normal blood pressure (systolic < 140 mmHg and diastolic < 90 mmHg, and not taking medication) was analised. Methods of descriptive statistics, Student's t-test, chi2-test and logistic regression were used. The recorded 5-CIAH in male cohort was 36.9% [32.1 to 41.6] and 33.0% [30.1 to 36.0] in women and was higher in subjects with initial prehypertension (men 43.3% [37.5 to 49.0] versus 9.6% [12.1 to 27.2]; women (42 3% [38.1 to 46.6] versus 22.3% [18.5 to 26.1]). The development of arterial hypertension was affected by age (OR = 2.2168), initial prehypertension (OR = 2.1987) and overweight (OR = 1.9399).
authors.affiliation: Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia. marijan.erceg@hzjz.hr
authors.forename: Marijan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erceg
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivicević-Uhernik
authors.forename: Josipa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kern
authors.forename: Silvije
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vuletić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015331:Cohort Studies; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult