Hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among diabetic and nondiabetic individuals in a multiethnic population in the Netherlands

Fernald, F; Born, Bert‐Jan H. van den; Snijder, Marieke B.; Brewster, Lizzy M.; Peters, Ron J.G.; Agyemang, Charles

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“…Around 40% of the population of Suriname lives in the Netherlands, where they face major inequities in health compared to white Dutch (Fernald et al, 2016;Snijder et al, 2017;Brewster, 2019;Diemer et al, 2020;Brewster, 2020;Kallianidis et al, 2022). Centuries of enslavement of African ancestry persons, as well as decades of indentured labour of Asian ancestry persons, still seem to resonate in the health of these population groups today (Stedman, 1796;Teenstra, 1842;de Kom, 1934;Davis, 2011;Oehlers et al, 2016;Schokkenbroek and van den Broeke, 2022).…”

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“…Surinamese persons have a lower life expectancy than European Dutch whether living in Suriname or in the Netherlands (Central Bureau of Statistics, www.cbs.nl; The World Bank, n.d.; Brewster, 2020). The lifespan of Surinamese-Dutch is up to 3 to 5 years shorter than European-Dutch, with higher child and maternal mortality (Central Bureau of Statistics, www.cbs.nl;Fernald et al, 2016;Snijder et al, 2017;Brewster, 2019;Diemer et al, 2020;Brewster et al, 2020;Brewster, 2020;Kallianidis et al, 2022). However, national public health research on inequities among Surinamese-Dutch is hampered by the lack of data segregated by ancestry (Brewster, 2019;2020).…”

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“…Currently, estimations based on the country of birth (first and later generations migrant populations), data from non-governmental organisations, or local or small-scale studies have been used in public health research (Fernald et al, 2016;Snijder et al, 2017;Brewster, 2019;Diemer et al, 2020;Kallianidis et al, 2022). However, country of birth is not a proxy for ancestry, and these methods are incomplete and insufficient to adequately research or monitor Surinamese of African and Asian ancestry, who have important differences in history, socio-economic characteristics, culture, and health (Fernald et al, 2016;Brewster et al, 2016;Snijder et al, 2017;Brewster, 2019;Diemer et al, 2020;Brewster et al, 2020).…”

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The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research

Brewster,

Ishwardat,

Damsteegt

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Around half of the population of Suriname, who are mainly of African and South Asian descent, migrated to the Netherlands at the end of the previous century, where they face higher perinatal and maternal mortality and up to 5 years lower life expectancy than European-Dutch. Analyses by ancestry are needed to address these inequalities, but the law prohibits registration by ancestry. Therefore, a list of Surinamese surnames was compiled and validated to identify the largest groups, African-Surinamese or South Asian-Surinamese ancestry in health research. A complete database of Surinamese surnames was provided by the National Population Registry of Suriname. Surname recognition by researchers of Surinamese ancestry was used. Disagreement was resolved using historical registers and through discussion. The list was further validated against contemporary lists of Surinamese surnames with self-defined ancestry, obtained during population and clinical studies in Suriname and the Netherlands. All 71,529 Surinamese surnames were encoded, as African-Surinamese (34%), South Asian-Surinamese (18%), Brazilian or other Iberian (17%), Indonesian-Surinamese (13%), Chinese-Surinamese (5%), First Nation (2%), and other (10%). Compared to self-defined ancestry, South Asian-Surinamese surname coding had 100% sensitivity, 99.8% specificity, and 99.9% accuracy. For African-Surinamese, who may have Dutch surnames, these values depended on geocoding. With a known Surinamese origin, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were, respectively, 97.3%, 100%, and 98.6%, but without this information, there was interference of African-Surinamese with European-Dutch surnames in the Dutch validation sample. In conclusion, the Surinamese Surname List has a high accuracy in identifying persons of Surinamese ancestry. This quick, inexpensive, and nonintrusive method, which is unaffected by response bias, might be a valuable tool in public health research to help address the profound health disparities by ancestry.

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The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research

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Damsteegt

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“…Superdiversity underlines population complexity and fluidity, often utilising a geographical rather than ethno-national focus, avoiding the categorisation of populations by ethnic or country of origin (Cuthill 2017) and highlighting the multi-layered nature of populations in neighbourhoods where old and new migrants and minorities live with ethnic-majority native residents and where demographic changes have become the norm (Pemberton and Phillimore 2018). These complex and evolving populations offer a range of challenges for healthcare provision and health promotion, particularly given evidence of continuing disparities in health outcomes, even before the emergence of superdiversity (Hernandez-Plaza et al 2014;Bhopal et al 2014;Fernald et al 2016;Mladovsky 2009).…”

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Superdiversity, population health and health care: opportunities and challenges in a changing world

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“…Limited evidence is available about the association of SES with awareness, treatment and control of hypertension especially for migrant groups [3]. It has been shown that prevalence of hypertension is higher in ethnic minority groups in Europe [5][6][7][8], and that hypertension is more frequently uncontrolled compared with the host European populations [5,9,10]. This implies that ethnicity is an important factor to consider in hypertension management.…”

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The association between socioeconomic status and prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in different ethnic groups: the Healthy Life in an Urban Setting study

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Haggenburg

Collard

et al. 2022

Journal of Hypertension

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Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) and ethnicity are both important determinants of hypertension prevalence and control rates but their separate contribution is unknown. We assessed the association of SES with hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control, and whether this differs between ethnic groups.Methods: We used baseline data from the Healthy Life in an Urban Setting (HELIUS) study, a multiethnic populationbased cohort study, including 18 106 participants (84% of the total cohort) of Dutch (n ¼ 4262), African Surinamese (n ¼ 3732), Moroccan (n ¼ 2902), Turkish (n ¼ 2694), South-Asian Surinamese (n ¼ 2664) and Ghanaian (n ¼ 1947) descent with data on SES and hypertension status.Results: Regardless of ethnicity, lower SES was associated with higher hypertension prevalence, especially in participants with no education compared with those with higher levels of education ]. There was an inverse association between SES and hypertension treatment with the strongest association for lower compared with higher educated participants ]. In addition, lower SES was associated with lower hypertension control with the strongest association for participants with the lowest compared with the highest occupational level ]. The association between educational level and treatment but not the other SES-or hypertension-indicators, was influenced by ethnicity, with lower educated Dutch and African Surinamese having higher ORs for hypertensive treatment ); African Surinamese OR 1.44 (1.10-1.89)].Conclusion: SES, in particular education, impacts hypertension treatment in the Netherlands, whereas the association of specific SES parameters with hypertension indicators differ across ethnic groups. Further exploration is needed on how sociocultural beliefs and behaviours may differentially affect blood pressure control across ethnic minority populations.

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Hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among diabetic and nondiabetic individuals in a multiethnic population in the Netherlands

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research

The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research

Superdiversity, population health and health care: opportunities and challenges in a changing world

The association between socioeconomic status and prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in different ethnic groups: the Healthy Life in an Urban Setting study

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