Prevalence of Insomnia Among Hypertensive Patients and Its Association With Antihypertensive Drugs

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.