{"id":162232,"date":"2021-07-30T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=162232"},"modified":"2021-07-30T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:02:28","slug":"national-survey-shows-that-obesity-and-high-blood-pressure-are-too-high-in-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/30\/national-survey-shows-that-obesity-and-high-blood-pressure-are-too-high-in-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"National survey shows that obesity and high blood pressure is a problem in the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137211\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ministerio-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent Ministry of Public Health study reveals that more than 70% of the Dominican population is overweight, 32.3% is hypertensive, and 12% are diabetic. The findings were presented for National Arterial Hypertension Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7,949 adults ages 45 to 64 participated in the study. Of these 52.8% were men and 47.2% women. 39.3% confirmed they consumed alcoholic beverages, 10.1% used tobacco products or nicotine. However, 91.5% regularly ate fruits, 88.6% ate vegetables, and 47.4% said they were physically active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of those participating in the study, 40.6% did not know they had high blood pressure and another 33.5% were not aware they had diabetes mellitus (33.5%). The nationwide survey was carried out 15, 22 and 29 May and 5, 11 and 12 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/msp-presenta-resultados-de-estudio-sobre-prevalencia-sobrepeso-hipertension-y-diabetes\/\">El Nuevo Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/como-anda-la-poblacion-dominicana-en-sobrepeso-hipertension-y-diabetes-aqui-la-respuesta\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 July 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Ministry of Public Health study reveals that more than 70% of the Dominican population is overweight, 32.3% is hypertensive, and 12% are diabetic. The findings were presented for National Arterial Hypertension Day. 7,949 adults ages 45 to 64 participated in the study. Of these 52.8% were men and 47.2% women. 39.3% confirmed they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/30\/national-survey-shows-that-obesity-and-high-blood-pressure-are-too-high-in-the-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162290,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162232\/revisions\/162290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}