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Gaceta Médica Boliviana

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MAMANI ORTIZ, Yercin; LUIZAGA LOPEZ, Jenny Marcela; ARMAZA CESPEDES, Ada  y  ILLANES VELARDE, Daniel Elving. Ethnic and gender inequalities in the prevalence of elevated blood pressure in the general population of Cochabamba: an intersectional analysis of health inequities . Gac Med Bol [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.2, pp.147-157. ISSN 1012-2966.

Health inequalities are commonly evaluated in a single dimension of analysis and little is known about the summative or multiplicative effect when 2 or more social dimensions are combined; representing a challenge for the prevention and control of High Blood Pressure (HBP). Objective: Analyze the factors involved in the inequalities of the prevalence of HBP in the inter-sectional space of the processes of social advantage and disadvantage by ethnic and gender reference. Methods: Observational, cross-sectional study with an intersectional approach. Subjects over 18 years of age with permanent residence in Cochabamba (n = 10,595), selected by means of three-stage random sampling, participated. The WHO-STEPS survey was used to collect information on HBP and the risk factors associated. Four intersectional positions were constructed by the combination of gender and ethnicity. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition was applied to estimate the contributions of the explanatory factors of the inequalities. Results: The prevalence of HBP was higher in mestizos men (10.76%); the disparity by gender reference was more important between mestizos (3.74%) and indigenous people (3.11%); the intersectional disparity between extreme groups (3.53%) was greater than the disparity between middle groups (3.32%). Age, type of work, and lifestyles contributed more to explain these differences. Conclusions: The HBP is not distributed according to the expected patterns of social disadvantage in the intersectional space of ethnicity and gender. A high social advantage was related to higher prevalence of HBP, as well as associated behavioral risk factors.

Palabras clave : High Blood Pressure; Health Inequalities; Non communicable disease; Intersectionality; Gender; Ethnicity.

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