Prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among adult population - A Hospital based cross sectional study

Dr.Vasantkumar V Bhanushali; Dr.K.S.Premlal; Dr.Vinu.E; Dr.Saranya Nagalingam

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

Prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among adult population - A Hospital based cross sectional study

Dr. Vasantkumar V Bhanushali, Dr. K. S. Premlal, Dr. Vinu. E, Dr. Saranya Nagalingam

Abstract :

Background: The incidence and prevalence of systemic hypertension is on the rise and its causing the burden on the health system by its complications and years of potential life lost among the affected population. Objectives:To estimate the prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among the study population. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among the adult patients above 30 years of age attending the OPD department during the two months period at the rural field practice area Maypayoor Primary Health centre. The calculated sample size was 329. After getting the informed consent about the study, they were interviewed with the pre tested questionnaire to collect the demographic factors, lifestyle factors, dietary habits and the anthropometric measurements like Blood pressure, height, weight, BMI, waist circumference, waist hip ratio. Results:Mean age of the study population was 57 years, majority (57%) were females and 15% had family history of hypertension. Among the study population 7%, 9% and 18% were smokers, alcohol users and tobacco chewers. The mean BMI of the study population is 23.8Skg/m2, the mean (SD) waist circumference of the study population is 90.5cm, mean hip circumference of the study population is 91.5cm, the mean (SD) waist–hip ratio of the study population is .96. Prevalence of hypertension among study subjects found to be 25% and prevalence of pre–Hypertension found to be l0%.Conclusion: The prevalence of hypertension was moderately high among this study population which needs to do a large scale community based studies.