Their findings revealed mean age-adjusted SBP declined by approximately 2 mmHg from 1980 to 2008. studied secular trends in the age-adjusted mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) worldwide. As per World Health Organization report, about 40% of people aged more than 25 years had hypertension in 2008. Hypertension (HTN) is an important public health problem in both economically developed and developing nations. Age, education, and cholesterol levels were independent risk factors of hypertension. There is significant burden of hypertension in rural areas in Delhi. Hypertension was significantly higher in those who take alcohol and in subjects with raised total cholesterol level but in multivariate analysis only age, education, and cholesterol levels were independently associated with hypertension. Hypertension was significantly higher in individuals more than 35 years than those less than 35 years. The prevalence of hypertension was 14.1% among study subjects. value less than 0.05 was considered significant. Odds of hypertension among subjects with risk factors were calculated. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 16. Blood pressure, body mass index, and blood sugar were measured. WHO STEPS approach was used to collect data. It was a community based cross-sectional study conducted in two rural areas in Delhi among 1005 subjects selected using systematic random sampling method. Data is available on hypertension in urban population but few studies are reported in rural areas. It is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular mortality. Hypertension is an important public health challenge in both economically developing and developed countries.
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