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Health literacy and its association with disease knowledge and control in patients with hypertension in Singapore

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    Ko et al. used Chi-squared test to examine the association between HL and blood pressure control, and found that the achievement of target blood pressure was not associated with HL level [28]. Five studies elucidated that lower HL was associated with less hypertension knowledge; three of which controlled for confounders [4,20,29] and two of which did not [28,30]. Panit et al. used multivariable analyses to examine the relationship between HL and hypertension knowledge, and low HL was found to be a significant independent predictor of poorer hypertension knowledge [4].

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