Open Access“PREVALENCE OF ISOLATED HYPERTENSION AMONG ELDERLY PATIENTS ATTENDING PERIPHERAL HEALTH CENTRE OF TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF INDIA.”
Author(s) -
Munish Sharma,
Neeraj Gour,
Sanjay Choudhary,
Naveen Krishan Goel,
Deepak Sharma,
Meenakshi Chaudhary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v3i12.813
Subject(s) - medicine , tertiary care , health care , pediatrics , cross sectional study , population , environmental health , pathology , economics , economic growth
Background: In this modern era, chronic non communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major global health challenge with numerous grave complications on the human body. Old age population tends to carry risk of almost all kind of diseases including non communicable diseases. Hypertension is one of biggest well known risk factor for many of non-communicable diseases usually found in the outdoor patients.
Method: This cross sectional study was undertaken to provide the data on the Prevalence & Pattern of hypertension amongst patients who were aged 60 years & above and who attended the Out Patients Department of the Rural Health & Training Centre of tertiary care hospital of Chandigarh city of India.
Results: Majority of patients belonging to age group 60-69 years were found to be diastolic hypertensive (24.46%). Majority of male patients were found to be diastolic hypertensive (28.43%) (P< 0.05). More of less same trend was found among female patients.
Conclusion: Hypertension was found to be highly prevalent among the outdoor elderly patients of Rural Health & Training Centre of Chandigarh, India. This study warrants the need of an early detection of hypertension, which can be accomplished by a periodic screening of the people.
Keywords: Hypertension; Elderly; India.