Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành y học tạp chí Medical Sciences dành cho các bạn sinh viên ngành y tham khảo đề tài: Study of urban community survey in India: growing trend of high prevalence of hypertension in a developing country. | Int. J. Med. Sci. 2005 2 70 Research paper Received Accepted Published Abstract Key words Author biography Corresponding address International Journal of Medical Sciences ISSN 1449-1907 2005 2 2 70-78 2005 Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Study of urban community survey in India growing trend of high prevalence of hypertension in a developing country Shyamal Kumar Das 1 Kalyan Sanyal 2 Arindam Basu 3 1 Dept Of Neuromedicine Bangur Institute Of Neurology Kolkata India. 2 Malda District Hospital Malda India. 3 Fogarty Training Program IPGMER Kolkata India. The prevalence pattern of hypertension in developing countries is different from that in the developed countries. In India a very large populous and typical developing country community surveys have documented that between three and six decades prevalence of hypertension has increased by about 30 times among urban dwellers and by about 10 times among the rural inhabitants. Various factors might have contributed to this rising trend and among others consequences of urbanization such as change in life style pattern diet and stress increased population and shrinking employment have been implicated. In this paper we study the prevalence of hypertension in an urban community of India using the JNC VII criteria with the aim of identifying the risk factors and suggesting intervention strategies. A total of 1609 respondents out of 1662 individuals participated in our cross-sectional survey of validated and structured questionnaire followed by blood pressure measurement. Results showed pre-hypertensive levels of blood pressures among of the participants in systolic group 120-139mm of Hg and in diastolic group 80-89 mm of Hg . Systolic hypertension 140 mm of Hg was present in and diastolic hypertension 90 mm of Hg in of the participants. Age and sex-specific prevalence of hypertension showed progressive rise of systolic and diastolic .
