Abstract

An elevated blood pressure is probably the most important public health problem in developed and developing counties as well. It is common, asymptomatic, readily detectable and usually easily treatable and if untreated often lead to lethal complication1. Blood pressure is considered to be a continuously distributed variable and essential hypertension is one extreme of this distribution2. Hypertension is a multifactorial disease with interaction of multiple environmental and gene determinants, is a condition with its own risk factor and determinants. Hypertension is threat to life at all age in both sexes with its grave impact in the aged, in the young: male as well as female. The number of patients with hypertension is continuous to grow as longevity increase and it is estimated that one hale of peoples older than 65 years are hypertensive 5.

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