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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Prevalence of Hypertension and Its Associated Risk Factors in a Rural Black Population of Mthatha Town, South Africa.

Jyoti Rajan Sharma, Sihle E Mabhida, Bronwyn Myers, Teke Apalata, Edward Nicol, Mongi Benjeddou, Christo Muller, Rabia Johnson

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Hypertension Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in a South African Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  8. A prospective analysis to assess the multifactorial risk of childhood-onset hypertension: the ExAMIN Youth SA study.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025
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  12. Association Between Renal Dysfunction and Lipid Ratios in Rural Black South Africans.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  18. Clinical and audiological characteristics in adults with tinnitus in South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jyoti Rajan SharmaBiomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.
Sihle E MabhidaBiomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.
Bronwyn MyersDivision of Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.
Teke ApalataDivision of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory-Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha 5117, South Africa.
Edward NicolBurden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6019-9259
Mongi BenjeddouDepartment of Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-0124-319X
Christo MullerBiomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6821-2120
Rabia JohnsonBiomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6328-0789
South African Medical Research Council · ZAUniversity of the Western Cape · ZAWalter Sisulu University · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Black or African AmericanHypertensionAdolescentAdultBody Mass IndexCross-Sectional StudiesHumansPrevalenceRisk FactorsRural PopulationSouth Africabody mass indexfactorshypertension prevalencehypertension treatment

Identifiers

PMID33572921
PMCPMC7908535
OpenAlexW3127596617

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Registered trials

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