1. Somatic Symptom Disorder in Elderly Patients With Essential Hypertension in Community Hospital.
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Chen, Bing-xu, Liao, Jia-yu, Fu, Yun-fei, Qin, Shou-min, Jiang, Meng, Mao, Jia-liang, and Bu, Jun
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OLDER patients ,HYPERTENSION ,ESSENTIAL hypertension ,SYMPTOMS ,SELF-evaluation - Abstract
Background To investigate and analyze the prevalence of somatic symptom disorder in elderly patients with essential hypertension in community hospitals. Methods A total of 5,473 patients in 100 community hospitals in Shanghai from January to June 2019 were enrolled in the cross-sectional study. Among them, 3,080 patients were diagnosed with essential hypertension and 2,393 patients without essential hypertension. The corresponding clinical data were collected and the somatic symptom self-rating scale was used to evaluate these patients. Results The prevalence of somatic symptom disorder in elderly patients with essential hypertension was higher than those without essential hypertension (45.3% vs. 31.8%, P < 0.01), and the score of somatic symptom self-rating scale was higher than patients without essential hypertension (34.3 ± 8.5 vs. 32.9 ± 8.1, P < 0.01). In elderly patients with essential hypertension, concentration difficulties (72.5% vs. 69.6%, P = 0.021), fatigue (65.6% vs. 60.2%, P < 0.01), dizziness and headache (62.6% vs. 53.3%, P < 0.01), and other somatic symptoms were higher than patients without essential hypertension. Conclusions The prevalence and severity of somatic symptom disorder in elderly patients with essential hypertension are higher than those without essential hypertension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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