Prevalence of Hypertension in Adult Population of Hayatabad Peshawar

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is one of the common non communicable disease and is reported to beprevalent in 20% to 50% of the adult population, hypertension is one of the major contributor ofmortality and morbidity in developing and developed countries. The cross-sectional descriptive studywas formulated to find the prevalence and to assess different etiological factors of hypertension.MATERIAL & METHODS: This cross-sectional study among 400 adults of age 25-75 years wasconducted in months of June to December 2014 in Phase 5, Hayatabad Peshawar. A detailed structuredproforma having important questions was used to collect important data regarding various variables.RESULTS: Our study results showed that 22.75% of the study people were hypertensive i.e. 10.25% ofmales and 12.5% of females; and the prevalence of hypertension showed positive association withadvancing age. Out of all respondents; 60.25% were males while 39.75% were females; 28.5% weresmokers; 5.25% consume predominantly meat; 32.5% were obese & overweight; 36.75% checked theirB.P regularly; and 19.75% had positive history of hypertension in family.CONCLUSION: We conclude that hypertension prevalence was high among our study population andwas associated with various modifiable and non modifiable risk factors thus population based preventivestrategies are needed to control and prevent hypertension.KEY WORDS: Hypertension, Age, Diet, Smokers, Hayatabad, Peshawar.

Prevalence of prehypertension among adults: a study from Peshawar

“…Moreover, 18.19% of the participants were found to be hypertensive which is comparable to other studies done on the adult population of Hayatabad Peshawar KPK. 9 High prevalence of PHTN (i.e., 56.07%) was observed in medical students of Northern Border University in Arar city, Saudi Arabia. 10 Similar results were found in another study conducted in Saudi Arabia which concluded that the prevalence of PHTN in males and females was 66.1% and 48%, respectively.…”