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Introduction: Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disease and a public health issue. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee (JNC 7) defined pre-hypertension as blood pressure over optimum levels (SBP 120-139 mm Hg or DBP 80-89 mm Hg). Indian community-based study found about a third of the population had pre-HTN. Young adults are increasingly developing pre-hypertension and hypertension. In a multi-center research of 11 Indian cities, 40.2% of men and 30.1% of women had prehypertension. A research study in Orissa found 67% of medical students had prehypertension. Aims: To Study the prevalence of pre-hypertension and association of BMI and waist hip ratio with pre-hypertension in this specific Population. Materials and Methods: It was a Cross sectional study .this study was conducted from June2017 to June 2020 in the department of Medicine at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha. 155 patients were included in this study. Results: Prevalence of prehypertension was observed in overweight population (50%) followed by obese population (26.7%) and Normal BMI (8.1%) with statistically significant difference. Waist hip ratio indicating obese was observed in 30.3% of study population and mean weight, BMI, waist circumference, Hip circumference, Waist/Hip ratio, SBP and DBP was significantly higher in study population with prehypertension.

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