As shown in Table 3, the proportions of awareness and treatment of hypertension were higher in individuals who were older, women, urban residents, living in economically developed areas, and with higher BMI and abdominal obesity in both newly-diagnosed and previously-diagnosed diabetes.
34 Much higher proportions of PV awareness have been reported in Europe 29 and Asia, 55 56 where there are higher ADR reporting rates per million of population 57 and more government involvement in national PV programmes.
Furthermore, a significant proportion of Hispanics lack awareness of diabetes risk factors and prevention strategies [ 25].
Across gardening seasons, the (weighted) proportion of respondents indicating awareness of the Toronto pesticide bylaw increased from 50.6% (2005) to 69.2% (2008) (Table 4).
Statistical significance (two-tailed p-value < 0.05) for a linear trend in the proportion of emergency contraceptive awareness or use was used in untransformed data.
Sample size was determined using a single population proportion formula, with the following assumptions: maximum allowable error (5%); proportion of students having awareness of contraceptive methods (50%); Z statistic = 1.96; design effect of 2 (to compensate the clustering effect introduced as result of using stratified sampling technique); and non-response rate 10%.
A small proportion showed a lack of awareness of available health services [ 6], which can act as a barrier to the use of health services [ 17, 18, 28].
We therefore suggest that both the proportion of women and gender awareness among male physicians in a specialty might have some influence on the working climate.
Furthermore, a cross-sectional study in a cohort of 401 people with Type 2 diabetes, also using this question, reported a similar proportion of respondents with impaired awareness (46%) to that in the current study (43 45%) 18.
