RELATION BETWEEN HYPERTENSION AND OCCUPATIONAL FACTORS IN RURAL AND URBAN AFRICANS

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 58  (3) , 485-489
Abstract
Cross-sectional surveys of arterial blood pressure among rural and urban communities in Bendal, Nigeria, showed that mean systolic and diastolic pressures were higher in urban than in rural subjects. Differences were statistically significant only in certain age groups. Mean arterial pressures in groups of rural laborers, rural clerks and urban clerks were compared but the differences were not statistically significant and it is not clear whether the small differences in blood pressure between rural laborers and urban clerks were associated with occupation or area of residence. Consistently intermediate values for rural clerks over the whole range of age groups provided indirect evidence that both factors were relevant.