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Lower educational attainment is associated with higher prevalence of hypertension and diabetes, although this association becomes less pronounced after adjusting for other socioeconomic and demographic variables.
Education level is linked to health outcomes, with less education correlating with higher rates of hypertension and diabetes. Public health efforts should focus on providing accessible, easy-to-understand health information and care for individuals with lower educational attainment to reduce these disparities.
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Participants without formal education had the highest prevalence (30.7%)... whereas those with more than 12 years of education had the lowest prevalence (11.6%).
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Observational cohort study with self-reported data.
Source
Self-Reported Prevalence of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Concerning Socioeconomic and Educational Factors: Analysis of the PURE-Ecuador Cohort
Camilo Félix et al. · Global Heart · 2025
DOI 10.5334/gh.1416
cohort · n=2028Cited 3×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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