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A Study of Epidemiology of Hypertension in an Urban Slum Community of Mumbai
Author(s): Prasad Tukaram Dhikale, Mridula J Solanki and Saurabh Ram Bihari Lal ShrivastavaPrasad Tukaram Dhikale, Mridula J Solanki and Saurabh Ram Bihari Lal Shrivastava
Background: Hypertension is often asymptomatic disease and can lead to lethal complications. So the present study was done with the objective of studying the prevalence and determinants of hypertension and to assess the applicability of the rule of halves in hypertension in the urban slum community. Methods: It was a community based cross-sectional study conducted from April 2010 to March 2012, among people above 18 years of age residing in an urban slum of Mumbai, from Malwani slum. Multistage sampling procedure was employed and total sample size was 1089. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 16 software. Frequency distribution was calculated for all the socio-demographic variables and chi-square test was also employed to study the association between risk factors and presence of hypertension. Results: The prevalence of hypertension in the study gr.. View More»