Assessment of hypertension in elderly population of Peshawar university
Keywords:
elderly, hypertension, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressureAbstract
Objective: To assess hypertension in elderly people aged 60 and above residing in university campus Peshawar. Methodology: This cross-sectional study included a total of 103 elderly people aged 60 and above, selected from university campus Peshawar by simple random sampling from January to April 2019. Blood pressure was measured manually. Subjects with systolic blood pressure more than 140 and diastolic blood pressure more than 90 mm of Hg and signs & symptoms of hypertension were considered as hypertensive. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect the data. Data was entered and analyzed on SPSS version 20 and Microsoft Excel 2013. Results: The prevalence rate of hypertension in the study population was 68.0% (70/103), which contain 41.8% (43/103) of stage I and 26.2% (27/103) of stage II hypertension. The hypertension was more prevalent in males than females. The combined mean systolic blood pressure of the total population was 146.12 mmHg (SD 21.70 mmHg, 95% CI 141.92-150.31), while mean diastolic blood pressure was 89.61 mmHg (SD 14.15 mmHg, 95% CI 86.88-92.34). Conclusion: Although prevalence of hypertension in geriatric population is very high but major bulk is undiagnosed.
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