OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of @entity101 for @entity1 and @entity1 living in three French regions. DESIGN: A cross-sectional population survey. SETTING: Subjects in the World Health Organization Monitoring Trends and Determinants in @entity65 population surveys of Bas-Rhin, the urban community of Lille and Haute-Garonne, France. SUBJECTS: We studied 1924 @entity1 and 1874 @entity1 aged 35-64 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: @entity101 was defined as a systolic blood pressure > or = 160 mmHg, a diastolic blood pressure > or = 95 mmHg, being administered antihypertensive drug treatment or any combination of the foregoing. Treated @entity101 subjects were considered controlled if their systolic blood pressure was < 160 mmHg and their diastolic blood pressure was < 95 mmHg. RESULTS: The prevalence of @entity101 was 40.2, 43.8 and 27.7% among @entity1 in Lille, Bas-Rhin and Haute-Garonne, respectively. For @entity1 , the corresponding values were 31.5, 33.8 and 18.9%. Among @entity101 @entity1 , 51.8% were aware of their condition, 30.0% were being administered drug treatment and 9.2% were controlled; the respective values for @entity101 @entity1 were 69.8, 51.2 and 25.3% (P < 0.001). Awareness of @entity101 was associated with antihypertensive treatment more commonly in Haute-Garonne (81.0% for @entity1 and 84.7% for @entity1 ). The percentages of treated subjects in whom adequate control of the blood pressure had been achieved were only 30.7% for @entity1 and 49.4% for @entity1 . CONCLUSION: @entity1 have a better awareness of @entity101 than do @entity1 and their @entity101 is controlled better but the low rate of control for both sexes calls for further improvements.

Sex differences in awareness and control of XXXX in France.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['men', 'women', 'Women'] @entity101 :: ('MESH:D006973', 'Disease') :: ['hypertension', 'hypertensive', 'Hypertension'] @entity65 :: ('MESH:D002318', 'Disease') :: ['Cardiovascular Disease']
@entity101 :: (MESH:D006973,Disease) :: ['hypertension']
