Assessment of the prevalence of Hypertension and its association with various risk factors in the rural population of the district Muzaffarnagar

Background: We are living in a rapidly changing environment. One of the most striking examples of this shift is the factthat NCDs such as Hypertension, Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Diabetes and Chronic Lung diseases have overtakeninfectious diseases as the world’s leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Hence, it is important to know the bloodpressure status before target organ damage occurs.Aim and objectives: This study was designed to Assess the prevalence of Hypertension and its association with variousrisk factors in the rural population of the district Muzaffarnagar.Material and Methods: Community based, Cross-sectional study. Simple random Sampling was done to have the samplesize of 660.Semistuctured, pretested questionnaire and different measurement tools were used to collect the data.Result: Shows that the prevalence of Hypertension was observed to be 18.9 % (stage i+ stage ii), out of which 13.3 % werein stage i Hypertension and 5.6% were in stage ii Hypertension. Pre-hypertensive constituted 40.2% while 40.9% of studysubjects were Normotensive.Conclusion: There was a significant impact of the risk factors on the prevalence of hypertension and different preventivemeasures should be advised to prevent and control the epidemic of hypertension.