Association of physical activity, nature of job, and exercise with the prevalence of essential hypertension in the Tharparkar desert

Abstract

Results: After getting approval from the ethics review committee, the mean age and prevalence of EHTN among the studied 563 participants from Tharparkar desert were assessed and found to be 37 (±16.4 years, range 10-82 years) and 81 (14.4%), respectively. Participants leading a sedentary lifestyle showed higher prevalence of EHTN (19.2%) than those leading an active lifestyle (1.9%). Participants having job with mild physical activity had higher prevalence of EHTN (19.4%) than those having jobs with active lifestyle (2.9%); p-values were <0.001 in both cases. The analysis of data for participants not doing exercise and prevalence of EHTN did not show statistically significant p-value (i.e., 0.57). Conclusion: It is concluded that in the Tharparkar desert, mild physical activity and jobs with sedentary lifestyle were significantly associated with the prevalence of EHTN. The comparison of participants doing versus not-doing exercise showed nonsignificant results because of the small sample size of those responding positive for exercise.

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