Affiliation:
1. Associate professor, Department of physiology, Dr.SMCSI Medical college, Karakonam.
2. Associate professor, Department Of Community Medicine, Dr.SMCSI Medical college, Karakonam.
3. Professor, Department of physiology, Dr.SMCSI Medical college, Karakonam
Abstract
Hypertension is a chronic disease quite common in the day to day scenario and is ranked as the rst most important risk factor driving the most
death and disability combined in Kerala (2016) (3). Hypertension and insomnia are found to coexist (1) (2). The prevalence of insomnia among
hypertensive patients of South Kerala has not been properly studied, this study aims to investigate the same. This study in addition to this tries to
nd out the association between insomnia and antihypertensive drugs, as previous researches have suggested insomnia as a possible side effect of
antihypertensive medication (5). So proper diagnostic measures should be adapted, with special surveillance of insomnia prone members of
society (based on epidemiological evidences) so as to prevent and treat insomnia at early stage itself and also prevent its progression to
hypertension.
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,Applied Mathematics,Geometry and Topology,Algebra and Number Theory,Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics,General Computer Science,Applied Mathematics,Control and Optimization,General Mathematics,Applied Mathematics,Finance,Numerical Analysis,Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics,Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,Analysis,Analysis
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