Health-related quality of life inequity and influencing factors among urban and rural elderly hypertensive populations: baseline survey of the Northern China Lifestyle Medicine Cohort.

While prolonged disease duration constituted a risk factor for HRQoL in urban settings, but demonstrated a positive trend in rural areas, which contrasted with findings from other studies [ 28 ], and maid stem from urban patients having longer diagnostic periods, thereby bearing a heavier burden in managing chronic conditions.

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