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Association between social participation and hypertension control among older people with self-reported hypertension in Japanese communities

Hypertension Research volume 45, pages 1263–1268 (2022)Cite this article

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Hypertension control remains poor worldwide despite well-established strategies for lowering blood pressure. Social participation has been associated with a lower prevalence of hypertension, but evidence is scarce regarding hypertension control. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between social participation and hypertension control among older people. We used cross-sectional data from participants of the 2019 wave of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES; n = 13,629). Social participation was defined as no participation, participation in one group, or participation in two or more groups. After adjusting for covariates, modified Poisson regression analysis showed that participation in two or more groups (prevalence ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.08 [1.03–1.13]) was associated with better control of hypertension than no participation, but participation in one group (1.02 [0.96–1.08]) was not. Social participation in multiple groups was associated with better control of hypertension among older people in Japan.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Program on Open Innovation Platform with Enterprises, Research Institute and Academia (OPERA, JPMJOP1831) from the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency. Additionally, this study used data from JAGES (the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study), which supported this research. It was also supported by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) KAKENHI (grant number JP15H01972), the Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant (H28-Choju-Ippan-002), the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) (JP18dk0110027, JP18ls0110002, JP18le0110009, JP20dk0110034, JP21lk0310073, and JP21dk0110037), grants from the Innovative Research Program on Suicide Countermeasures (1–4), the Sasakawa Sports Foundation, the Japan Health Promotion & Fitness Foundation, the Chiba Foundation for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, the 8020 Promotion Foundation (the 8020 Research Grant for fiscal year 2019; adopted number: 19-2-06), the Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare, and the Research Fund for Longevity Sciences from the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (29–42, 30-22, 20-19, 21-20).

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  1. Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Takayuki Ueno, Atsushi Nakagomi, Taishi Tsuji & Katsunori Kondo

  2. Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Takayuki Ueno

  3. Department of Cardiology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

    Atsushi Nakagomi

  4. Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

    Taishi Tsuji

  5. Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan

    Katsunori Kondo

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Ueno, T., Nakagomi, A., Tsuji, T. et al. Association between social participation and hypertension control among older people with self-reported hypertension in Japanese communities. Hypertens Res 45, 1263–1268 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-022-00953-w

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