Key result
Smoking, alcohol use, and family history linked to increased hypertension risk in elderly patients.
Why the study?
Hypertension among the elderly is highly prevalent yet treatable, and identifying risk factors in an urban setup could improve quality of life and reduce cardiovascular complications.
Cross-Sectional (n=125)
No
In elderly urban hypertensive patients, smoking, family history of diabetes, and sedentary lifestyle are highly prevalent risk factors, with myocardial infarction being the most common cardiovascular complication.
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Supports risk assessment in elderly hypertensives; leaves open causality and requires prospective validation.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension among the elderly is a major, highly prevalent yet treatable cardiovascular disease. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: Study aims to highlight the risk factors for hypertension in the elderly in an urban setup for the benefit of improving quality of life and also reduce the incidence of the cardiovascular related complications. METHODOLOGY: This is a Cross-sectional observational study. Included 125 study subjects based on selection criteria. The selected patients were subjected to a preformed and pretested schedule of questions pertaining to the risk factors. RESULTS: Among the known hypertensive patients above 60 years of age, 125 subjects were included in the study. Smoking (62%), alcohol consumption (21%), family history of hypertension (26%), family history of diabetes (70%) were statistically significant risk factors observed for the development of hypertension. CONCLUSION: Sedentary lifestyle (physically less active) and anthropometric measures like overweight and obesity, abnormal waist circumference, and abnormal waist hip ratio were all identified as remarkable risk for hypertension. Myocardial infarction (20%), stroke (14%), and heart failure (12%) were the chart buster complications of hypertension in the vulnerable geriatric population.
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Hari et al. (2021) conducted a cross-sectional in Hypertension (n=125). Smoking (62%), alcohol consumption (21%), and family history of hypertension (26%) were identified as significant risk factors for hypertension in elderly patients.
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