Open AccessTrend of hypertension in Gujarat–Understanding the NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 Data
Author(s) -
Swati Patel,
Prakash Patel
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
national journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-6816
pISSN - 0976-3325
DOI - 10.5455/njcm.20210205081335
Subject(s) - family health , medicine , demography , blood pressure , sociology , nursing , radiology
Several rounds of national health surveys have generated a vast amount of data in India since 1992. This article describes the key health information - hypertension from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS- 4 and 5) of Gujarat. The main aim of this article is to observe the prevalence of hypertension in Gujarat from NFHS-4 and 5 dataset.
Methods: The study was secondary data analysis based on the data from NFHS 4 and NFHS 5.
Results: NFHS 4 data illustrates the average prevalence of blood pressure to be 22.7% (for both men and women, total of all the three categories) in Gujarat. NFHS 5 data demonstrates the average prevalence of blood pressure to be 74.7% (for both men and women, total of all the three categories) in Gujarat.
Conclusion: The prevalence of hypertension is slightly increasing or almost equal to same in all categories of hypertension in rural as compared to urban area of Gujarat.