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Hypertension is one of the most common disease afflicting humans throughout the world. Target organ damage resulting from hypertension includes those affecting the brain, heart, kidneys and the eyes. Focal neurological deficits, dyspnoea, chest pain, headache, loss of vision are considered as the commonest symptoms with which patients having hypertension related acute target organ damage present. OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of micro-albuminuria among the non-diabetic hypertensive patients and to assess the relationship between micro-albuminuria and target organ damage. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 100 hypertensive patients microalbuminuria was measured in these patients by micral dipstick method. Chi-square test was used to study the relationship between microalbuminuria and other variables. P value was calculated for all the variables. RESULTS The prevalence of microalbuminuria was 23% among the non-diabetic hypertensive patients. A positive correlation between microalbuminuria and target organ damage was found in these patients. The odds ratio for microalbuminuric patients having retinopathy was 8.3% (95% confidence interval 2.4-37.5). Prevalence of microalbuminuria was higher among patients with Cerebrovascular Accidents (P < 0.001) with the odds ratio of 15.3 (95% confidence interval 4.9-47.5) and it was observed that there was significant correlation between the prevalence of microalbuminuria and the presence of LVH (P <0.001) with the odds ratio of 10.4 (95% confidence interval 3.52-30.8) in hypertensive patients. CONCLUSION

A STUDY OF MICROALBUMINURIA IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION AND ITS CORRELATION WITH THE TARGET ORGAN DAMAGE