Relationship Of Hypertension And Daily Consumption Of Salt And Edible Oil In Kashmiri Population
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
A community based cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out to assess the relationship of consumption of salt and edible oil & hypertension in kashmiri population. The study was taken from Oct. 2012 to Sept. 2013 in District Pulwama.. The sampling method used was multistage ,10% villages from each block were taken for study using population proportion to size method ( PPS). From each selected village 5% households were taken by systemic random method for the study. Minimum sample required was calculated .We have taken a sample size of 2100, out of which 1007 participants were males and 1093 participants were females. In each household, inmates of age 18 years and above were screened for hypertension. Those found fulfilling the inclusion criteria laid down for hypertension (JNC-VII 2003) were subjected to pretested questionnaire and two blood pressure readings were taken. In results; The overall prevalence was 14.56%, 13.8% in males and 15.3% in females.4.84%, 8.5% and 6.8% females were in prehypertension, stage-I and stage-II hypertension respectively.Among males 4.76% in pre-hypertension, 6.5% in stage-I and 7.3% were with hypertension. Pre-hypertensives are consuming about 7.58gms(mean), stage-I 7.94gms and stage-II 10.30gms of salt per 24 hours(/day). Pre-hypertensive subjects were consuming 3.92 cups of salt tea, Stage-I hypertension on average 4.89 cups of salt tea and in stage-II were consuming 7.35 cups The mean edible oil consumption per day, per subject in the study was 35.04 grams for prehypertensives, 37.61 grams for stage-I hypertensives and 49.62 grams for stage-II hypertensives.
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Dr. Shabir Dangroo
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