A study of prevalence of hypertension and associated complications at tertiary health care centre

 

Sanjay M Mundkar¹, Maddela Gopinath^2*

 

Abstract              Background: Hypertension is a major public health problem due to its high prevalence all around the globe Aims and Objectives: To Study prevalence of Hypertension and associated complications at tertiary health care centre. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in the patients admitted or attended at OPD of the department of Medicine of a tertiary health care centre during the period of September 2018 to February 2019. During this period there were approximately 15789 patients attended OPD or Admitted to Medicine. During the one year period there were 226 patients were with hypertension. All details of the patients like Age, sex and any complication etc. was noted and entered to excel sheets. The data was analyzed by Parsons Correlations coefficient and analyzed by SPSS 19 version software. Result : Patients in the age group of 20-30 were 2.21%, followed by 30-40 were 3.98%, 40-50 were 11.06%, 50-60 were 17.26%, 60-70 were 19.91%, >70 were 45.58%. From above table and Graph 1 and Table 1a it is clear that as age increases the prevalence of hypertension increases and this associations was statistically significant as Pearson r=0.92, P value (two-tailed) was 0.01, R2=0.839. The majority of the patients were male i.e. Male i.e. 66.37%, Female were 33.63%. The prevalence of complications were IHD in 11.50%, followed by Hypertensive nephropathy In 6.64%, Congestive Cardiac failure in 3.98%, Stroke in 3.54%, Hypertensive retinopathy in 3.10%. Conclusion : It can be concluded from our study that prevalence of hypertension was significantly higher in the old age hence all the persons above the age of 45 Yrs. should have routine measurement of Blood pressure for the prevention of complications and the most common complications observed were IHD, Hypertensive nephropathy , Congestive Cardiac failure ,Stroke, Hypertensive retinopathy etc.

Key words: Hypertension, Stroke, Hypertensive retinopathy, Hypertensive nephropathy