Target Organ Damage in Newly Detected Hypertensive Patients

Introduction: Hypertension (HTN) is a long standing medical condition in which the blood pressure (BP) with in the arteries are elevated persistently, which depend on whether the heart muscle is contracting (systole) or relaxed between beats (diastole) and equate to a maximum and minimum pressure, respectively. Target organ damage assessment in hypertension is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients. To assess the prevalence of target end Aims And Objective: organ damage in newly detected hypertensive patients. To analyse the severity of hypertension at the time of diagnosis based on target organ damage. Material And Methods: Data consists of primary data will be collected by the principal investigator directly from newly detected hypertensive patients. attending Medicine OPD and IPD in tertiary care Hospital. It was observed during the study that the Result And Observations: re is signicant correlation between the magnitude of blood pressure at the time of diagnosis and prevalence of end organ damage. Higher the blood pressure at the time of diagnosis, more is the risk of presence of end organ damage at that time. In this study there is correlation between blood pressure at time of diagnosis and presence of retinopathy and hypertensive heart disease. Such patients have increased risk of other complications of hypertension leading to increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. It was observed during the stud Discussion: y that presence of TOD in our study patients on their rst arrival at the hospital indicates unawareness among the general population. In this study, as the magnitude of blood pressure is higher at the time of diagnosis, there are chance of presence of end organ damage. The presence of signs of organ damage confers an increased cardiovascular risk to any level of blood pressure. This signies the importance of evaluating for all the end organ damage at the time of diagnosis of the disease. This reduces risk of morbidity and mortality and prevention of complications.