Abstract

Hypertension (HTN) is a major public health challenge across the world and is a major cause for mortality as well as disability-adjusted life years. The health problems of the people are closely associated with various socioeconomic factors including lifestyle of the people. with 29.8% overall, 33.8% urban and 27.6% rural area prevalence, HTN is a major public health problem and a leading non-communicable disease (NCD) in India. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Community Medicine, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMS&R), Jaipur, Rajasthan from January 2022 to December 2022. The study subjects were interviewed at their house and all information recorded in the pre-designed and pretested schedule. A second home visit was given to collect data when people who were not able to be contacted on first occasion. Altogether 410 subjects consented for the study. Age, sex, education, occupation, socio-economic status, religion, additional salt intake, physical activity, body weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure were taken as different variable for this study. Results: Out of the 410 participants, 66 (16 %) subjects were having hypertension. Subjects with age above 49 years were having high proportion (20.6 %) of hypertension in comparison to age less than 49 years. In comparison to females (12.1%), males were having higher proportion (18.6%) of hypertension. It appeared from the Table 2 that out of 66 hypertensives, 30.3 percent participants were taking additional salt, 22.2 percent were involved in drinking alcohol and 43.5 percent were smokers. The hypertension proportion was highest in participants with body mass index >25 (36.4%) among all variables. The role of Risk factors like age, gender, BMI, extra salt intake, and alcohol drinking in development of hypertension among study population was found be statistically significant (p<0.01).

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