Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and risk factors
associated with it among adults residing in Sukumbasi Basti of Dharan. A total number of
188 aged above18 were assessed in this study. A simple random sampling method was
applied. To determine the risk factors related to hypertension (i.e. BMI and WHR) height,
weight, waist circumference, hip circumference and blood pressure were measured. SPSS
version 27 and Microsoft Excel 2016 was used to analyze collected data. Descriptive
analysis was used to find the prevalence of hypertension and chi-square test was used to test
the significant association between factors of hypertension.
The overall prevalence of hypertension was found to be 36.7%. Males had higher
prevalence of hypertension than females which was 46.3% and 29.6% respectively. Age
(p<0.01), gender (p= 0.019), family history (p=0.011), diabetes (p= 0.001), WHR (p=
0.002), BMI (p= 0.027), physical activity (p=0.044), smoking (p=0.019), chewing tobacco
(p= 0.001), alcohol (p= 0.014), green leafy vegetables (p= 0.007), fruits (p= 0.011),
education (p= 0.026), marital status (p<0.001), stress (p<0.01), monthly income (p=0.033),
occupation (p=0.002) and sleeping hours (p= 0.002) were found to be significantly
associated with prevalence of hypertension. Dietary habits like Calorie intake (P=0.029),
carbohydrate intake (P=0.008), protein intake (P=0.041), fat intake (P=0.043), wheat
(P=0.034), pulses/legumes (P=0.03), milk and its products (P=0.019), red meat (P=0.026)
and fast foods (P=0.023) were also significantly associated with hypertension. The result of
the study showed that prevalence of hypertension in Sukumbasi basti was high.
Description:
A dissertation submitted to Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Central Campus of
Technology, Tribhuvan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Bachelors degree of Nutrition and Dietetics.
