PREVALENCE AND CORELLATES OF PREHYPERTENSION AND HYPERTENSION AMONG ADULTS ATTENDING OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Abstract

Introduction: India and many other developing countries are facing a problem of epidemiological transition from communicable diseases to noncommunicable diseases. Globalization brought the life style and behavioural modications and in turn increased the prevalence of life style disorders such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus etc. Aim and objectives: to know the prevalence of pre hypertension in age group of 19 to 45 years .to know the prevalence of hypertension in age group of 19 to 45 years to know association of various risk factors with pre hypertension and hypertension in adult age group. Methodology-a hospital based observational pilot study conducted among 770 adults between age groups of 19 to 45 years of age in government general hospital outpatient department, which is a tertiary care hospital that caters needs of entire NTR District, A.P. Results: it was observed that the prevalence of hypertension and pre hypertension was 24.7 % and 23.6% among study subjects. Uncontrolled hypertension was observed in 7.7% of study subjects. Various study factors like age, gender, presence of chronic illness, presence of alcohol consumption, presence of sedentary life style and absence of physical activity, junk food consumption, presence of high BMI contributed signicantly as possible risk factors for hypertension and prehypertension and showed statistically signicant association in this study