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Abstract

Background: to study awareness, attitude and determine some associated factors in hypertensive patients from ethnic minority who come to Military Hospital 6 for examination and treatment.

Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study of 97 ethnic minority patients diagnosed with hypertension by interview, measurement of anthropometric indicators according to a set of survey questionnaires.

Results: Awareness, attitude of patients about hypertension: 19.59% have not heard about hypertension; Periodical checking BP 7.21%, when having symptoms 24.74%, not checking 68.04%; subjects who not fully knew about complications with regard to hypertension accounted for 26.81%; BP increased proportionally with BMI, p<0.01; The average waist circumference of women was higher than that of men (89.83 ± 5.50 cm compared with 87.27 ± 5.59 cm), p<0.05, there was a positive, moderate correlation with BP (rHATTr = 0.44, rHATT = 0.56).

Conclusions: Awareness and attitudes of ethnic minorities about hypertension are still limited compared to plains and cities. The waist circumference of ethnic people tends to be higher than that of Kinh people. Hypertension has a positive correlation with waist circumference and BMI.