Lifestyle assessment dietary patterns anthropometric measurements and biochemical parameters of hypertensive patients of age 40 70 years

Abstract

Hypertension has emerged as a common and astonishingly progressive syndrome for CVDs and CHDs among more than one-third of the entire world adult population. A cross-sectional approach was applied to study 308 HTN patients (159 males and 149 females) in addition to 101 age and sex-aligned healthy controls (non-hypertensives) within the age range of 40 70 years. A questionnaire was filled out by the participants about how long they exercised and was depicted in the form of a table in percentage.Statistical investigation of collected data was done by using statistical software (SPSS package, version 20). Statistical tests such as, percentage, mean, SD, t-test, chi square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Kruskal-Wallis H Test and Mann-Whitney U test were applied and analyzed on the collected information.The observations of the present study revealed anthropometric parameters like age (56.58±9.3 years), waist hip ratio (0.90±0.07) and body fat percentage (33.98±7.67) to besignificant at p= lt0.001 while parameters like weight (72.9±15.0 kg), waist circumference (92.02±11.0 cm) and BMI were significant at p=lt0.05 among both hypertensive and normotensive groups. high statistical significance of parameters SBP, DBP and uric acid at p lt 0.001 while parameters like TG and fasting blood sugar to be significant at p and#8804; 0.005. Blood pressure is the major indicator of hypertensivity among the population as a whole irrespective of gender to which the subject belongs. Factors pertaining to personal information of the patients like history of Diabetes mellitus with 41.2% in the overall population (43% -females, 39.6%-males), BP fluctuations, 34.7% pooled (44.3%- females, 25.8%-males), family history of hypertension, 59.1% in pooled data (60.4%-females, 57.9%-males), alcohol consumption 23.7% pooled (4.7%-females, 41.5%) along salt intake/ sodium showed significant association with hypertension.