Prevalence and associated risk factors for prehypertension amongst young adults in Nagpur: A community based cross sectional study

Niniya Jayaprasad; Chaitanya R Patil; Arun  M Pedireddy

Volume : VI, Issue : X, October - 2017

Prevalence and associated risk factors for prehypertension amongst young adults in Nagpur: A community based cross sectional study

Niniya Jayaprasad, Chaitanya R Patil, Arun M Pedireddy

Abstract :

Pre–hypertension has been introduced as a new category for BP and deemed as a cardiovascular risk factor. Identifying pre–hypertension in younger adults helps in halting the progression of disease. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of pre–hypertension and its associated risk factors among young adults(18–40 years) of Nagpur. This community cross sectional study was carried out in urban filed practice area of Government Medical College Nagpur including 300 subjects. Demographic, behavioural variables, anthropometric and BP were measured. The prevalence of pre–hypertension in our study which was found to be 52.66% (59.41% in females; 49.25% in males). It was seen that age group of 18–29 years and underweight was a significant protective factor against pre–hypertension; whereas male gender, alcohol use, tobacco use, overweight and central obesity were risk factors for pre–hypertension. After applying logistic regression, age [OR–1.10 (1.06 to 1.14)], male gender [OR–2.69 (1.37 to 5.27)], underweight [OR–0.37 (0.16 to 0.85)] and overweight [OR–4.63 (1.79 to 11.95)] emerged as significant factors.