Open AccessAssociation of Metabolic Syndrome and Blood Pressure in Patients with Essential Hypertension
Author(s) -
Abhishek Kumar Chandra,
Ashutosh Kumar,
Ansuman Dalbehera
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-2237
pISSN - 2349-9788
DOI - 10.52403/ijrr.20210763
Subject(s) - metabolic syndrome , medicine , abdominal obesity , blood pressure , essential hypertension , obesity , lipid profile , uric acid , cholesterol , high density lipoprotein , endocrinology , gastroenterology
Objective: In Indian hypertensive patients, to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of the MS was the main objective of the present study.Material and Method: Current study was conducted in a tertiary care OPD among 130 patients who were diagnosed with essential hypertension. Any patients who were more that 18 years of age and diagnosed with essential hypertension and willing to participate in the study were included. By routine laboratory techniques which is generally used at NABL accredited private or government testing laboratories for analysis of lipid profile total cholesterol, total triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol were assayed.Result: Average MS score were high in both the male and female group. Both male and female groups patients receives adequate blood pressure lowering treatment. In both the groups maximum patients were in ARB therapy. All parameters which are related to occurrence of metabolic syndrome like, abdominal obesity, Total Cholesterol (TC), Triglycerides (TG), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), fasting blood glucose (FBG) and uric acids were significantly higher in both male and female patients than the control one.Conclusion: Current study conclude that, in Indian hypertensive patients, especially in females, metabolic syndrome was highly prevalent.Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, metabolic risk factors, hhypertension,