Prevalence of hypertension in a rural community of coastal Karnataka: a cross sectional study

Abstract

Background: Hypertension is major risk factor for CVDs and its complications account for 9.4 million deaths worldwide every year. Hypertension itself is responsible for about 45% and 51% deaths due to heart disease and stroke respectively. Hypertension is a major public health concern in India both in urban and rural areas and it is increasing at an alarming rate in rural population. Because of inadequate access to health care facilities at rural areas, the early screening and treatment of hypertension is not done regularly, so we conducted this study. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension in a rural community of coastal Karnataka.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted at rural field practice area of Srinivas Institute of Medical Sciences. Sample size was 300 and convenient sampling method used. Data was collected visiting homes and blood pressure measured with mercury sphygmomanometer by. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data.Results: Among 300 participants, 45% and 55% were males and females respectively and mean age of the participants was 50.6±15.4 years. The overall prevalence of hypertension among them was 18% and the proportion of hypertension was more among males, people aged >45 years and illiterates.Conclusions: Our study shows that, hypertension has seeped into rural population also which was a concern of the urban population earlier. New cases of hypertension diagnosed were also more which indirectly indicates, most people are not aware of their blood pressure and importance of regular monitoring of blood pressure. So, doing regular screening and creation of awareness at rural areas will help in reducing the morbidity and mortality due to hypertension and its complications.

High burden of hypertension amongst adult population in rural districts of Northwest Ethiopia: A call for community based intervention

“…This finding was consistent with the findings of an Ethiopian systematic review and meta-analysis (18.45%) [ 21 ] and a study conducted in the Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (17.5%) [ 48 ]. It’s also similar to findings from other countries, including Ombe, Cameroon (19.8%) [ 49 ], Davanagere, India (18.3%) [ 50 ], South India (18.3%) [ 51 ], Southern Rajasthan, India (18.67%) [ 52 ], and coastal Karnataka, India (18%) [ 53 ]. The use of similar age groups of the study participants could be one reason for the similarities.…”

Prevalence of Hypertension and Determination of Its Risk Factors in Korangrapady, Udupi District, Coastal Karnataka, India

“…The overall prevalence of hypertension of the study was 16.72% which is less comparing to the study conducted by Parthaje et al, 29.6% in an urban South India [9]. The study was comparable with the study conducted by Saxena et al, 18% in rural coastal Karnataka [5]. The several studies conducted in rural India show the average prevalence of hypertension has 18.6% [10][11][12][13].…”

A community-based study on the prevalence of hypertension among adults in rural Kerala

“…It may be because of majority of them are involved in some kind of physical activities, healthy diet. However, the proportion of hypertension was more among males, people aged >45 years and illiterates [11] . A large study conducted among 1500 participants in Andhra Pradesh (2018), the prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension in the age group of 18-65 years was reported to be 27.7% and 24.3% respectively.…”