Background: Hypertension is a common disease worldwide not just in Vietnam. Hypertension causes a series of metabolic disorders such as illness and death from kidney failure, heart failure, cerebral vascular calamity and various other chronic diseases.\r\n', u'Objectives: To discover the real situation of hypertension and to determine various related factors in Hoa Thuong commune/ Dong Hy district Thai Nguyen province \r\n', u'Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out involving 1970 people;.\r\n', u'Results: 17.7% of them had high blood pressure. The rate of hypertension in men was higher than that in women (20.3% and 15.4%, respectively). The related factors were found in the hypertension group/ including: high rate of glucose metabolic disorder (3.7%J cholesterol metabolic disorder (7.9%), creatinine metabolic disorder (34.1%). The rate of hypertension in the alcoholic consumption group was 1.28 times higher than that in non-drinking group. This difference between smoking group and nonsmoking group was 1.64 times. \r\n', u'Conclusion: Intervention for primary health care should be applied. A health care network for high blood pressure prevention in community should be established. \r\n', u'
Hypertension ; real situation ; related factor

Background: Caesarean section is a common surgical practice in gynecology. The rate of caesarean section is on the increase not only in Vietnam but also worldwide.\r\n', u'Objectives: To determine the rates of the caesarean section and related factors in mothers delivering from Jan 1st 2007 to Mar 31st 2007. Subjects and Methods: The cross-sectional study was carried out on 423 women (219 in Hoan Kiem district and 204 in Gia Lam district) from April to September 2007.\r\n', u'Results:Caesarean section rates in Hoan Kiem and Gia Lam district were 37.9% and 22.1%, respectively; total caesarean section rate was 30.3%. About 96-98% women who had history of caesarean delivery were going to give birth by caesarean sections. Caesarean section for non-medical reasons accounted for 14.6% of the women. There were 14% of mothers choosing caesarean sections for selecting the good day or the good hour and 16.7% for the impact of their family. \r\n', u'Conclusion: Caesarean section rate in this study were quite high, previous caesarean sections in patient history were one of the main reasons, non-medical caesarean reasons were not low in rate, the age of the women was one of the factors associated with caesarean sections. \r\n', u'\r\n', u'
Caesarean sections ; real situation ; related factor