A study of prevalence of hypertensive retinopathy at tertiary health care center

 

Priyadarshini Cholera¹, Manish Pendse^2*

 

Abstract              Background: nearly 26% of the adult population worldwide is affected by Hypertension. Kearney and colleagues estimated that the prevalence of hypertension in 2000 was 26% Aims and Objectives: To study prevalence of hypertensive retinopathy at tertiary health care center. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study carried out in the department of Ophthalmology during the one year period i.e. April 2018 to April 2019 so during the one year period those patients with diagnosed as Hypertensive and referred to Ophthalmology department for the routine retinal examination by taking the written and explained consent were included into the study . All details of the patients were noted and entered to excel sheet and analyzed by excel software for windows 10. Results: In our study we have seen that the prevalence of retinopathy was common in the age group >80 were 83.33%, followed by 70-80 were 68.62%, 60-70 were 65.3%, 50-60 were 53.83%, 40-50 were 45.00%, 30-40 were 25.00% and overall prevalence was 53.81%. The majority of the patients were Male i.e. 73.23% and 26.77 were Female. By Keith Wagener classification the prevalence of Grade I retinopathy was 51.18%, followed by Grade II was 27.55%, Grade III was 22.83%, Grade IV was 7.87 Conclusion: The hypertensive retinopathy is a very common problem specially in the males and old age hence these high risk patients should regularly screened for Hypertensive retinopathy and adequate measures should be taken to control BP and Hypertensive retinopathy.

Key words: hypertensive retinopathy, Keith Wagener classification.