Prevalence of prehypertension among adults: a study from Peshawar

Abstract

<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p>
 <p><strong>Background & Objectives</strong>: People with pre-hypertension (PHTN) is more likely to developed hypertension (HTN) and having higher risk of cardiovascular (CVD) and renal diseases. This study aims to determines the prevalence of pre-hypertension among the adult population of the XYZ institute</p>
 <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted no the adult population of a teaching institute Peshawar. This study included sample of 176 adults. A close ended questionnaire, containing some demographic and medical information’s was design to fulfil the aim of our study.  Blood pressure measurement was taken from all subjects and data were analyzed by using SPSS version22.</p>
 <p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of PHTN and HTN was 50.57% (n=89) and 18.19% respectively.  statistically significant association was found of gender with PHTN (P=0.036). PHTN was slightly more prevalent among male gender i.e.39.8% comparative to female gender i.e. 10.8%.  </p>
 <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> More than our half study population was to have PHTN. Its incidence was found statistically significant with male gender and is at higher risk developed HTN.</p>
 <p><strong>Key words</strong>:<em> </em>Blood pressure, hypertension and prehypertension.</p>