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Blood Pressure Trends and Hypertension among Rural and Urban Jat Women of Haryana, India

Maninder Kaur


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str. 139-144

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Hypertension is an important public health problem and the major causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among aged and elderly population in India. The present study is an attempt to assess age related trends of blood pressure and prevalence of hypertension in rural and urban women as well as correlation of blood pressure with obesity indicators (WC, BMI, and WHR). Data for present cross-sectional study were collected by purposive sampling method from six hundred Jat women (300 rural and 300 urban), aged 40 to 70 years. Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was employed to find the relationship between blood pressure and obesity indicators. The results revealed an age associated increase in mean values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in rural and urban women. Urban women showed significantly higher overall mean value of systolic (mm of Hg) (133.93 vs. 130.79, p<0.001), diastolic blood pressure (mm of Hg) (84.34 vs. 82.81, p<0.01) and pulse rate (81.72±6.27 vs. 80.94±9.06, p>0.05) as compared to rural women. The overall prevalence of hypertension was found to be 9% in rural and 26.66% in urban women as per JNC VII criteria. Increased prominence of hypertension among urban Jat women may be attributed to their modern lifestyle having more stress, less manual work and faulty dietary habits. There was a very low awareness of hypertension in the rural subjects (37%) than their urban (72%) counterparts. Rural and urban women revealed a positive and significant association of systolic blood pressure with body mass index, whereas only urban women displayed positive correlation of waist circumference with systolic (r=0.183**) and diastolic (r=0.151**) blood pressure.

Ključne riječi

hypertension; JNC VII criteria; obesity; prevalence; pulse rate

Hrčak ID:

78803

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/78803

Datum izdavanja:

28.3.2012.

Posjeta: 1.323 *