Epidemiological Factors Associated with Hypertension Among Tribal Population in Gujarat

Autor:	Bhadresh Mandani, Bhavesh Vaghani, Manishkumar Gorasiya, Parul Patel
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	tribal population risk factor WHO Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	National Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 2, Iss 01 (2011)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0976-3325 2229-6816
Popis:	Cardiovascular diseases are recognized as major public health problems by WHO. Very few studies have been carried out among tribal population in India. A cross sectional study was carried out in 2005 to find out the magnitude of hypertension among 154 tribal adults of South Gujarat. WHO classification of hypertension was taken as operational criteria and data was collected in pre-designed, pretested schedule. Blood pressure measurement was done twice on each subject using mercury sphygmomanometer. Overall magnitude of hypertension was found to be 16.9%, and only smoking was found to have significantly associated with it.
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