Epidemiology and characteristics of Yemeni hypertensive patients attended 48 hospital Sana'a City-Yemen at 2019

Abstract EN

Hypertension is one of the most health problems in the world.

people who have hypertension are at high risk of other diseases.

this study was conducted to identify distribution of hypertension among patients who attended to 48 hospital during 2019.

a cross-sectional study was conducted and collected the data of all patients diagnosed with hypertension during the year 2019 as registered by 48 medical compound.

the study area has electronic information system where is data collected and filled by physician or specialist in different medical departments and outpatient clinics.

the data in excel sheet contain information's about the disease including: age, sex and complications and laboratory tests lipid profile for each patient.

hospital registration system indicated the admission of total number of patients with hypertensive was 2225 during that year .chi square and fisher test analysis showed that the most patients with hypertension were with age group above 60 year (50%), residence in Sana’a 88.4% .females under age 60 years (62%), males above age 60 years (56.9%) and hypertension was significant with age with p-value 00.001.hypertensive heart diseases patients without heart failure (82.7%) most them (83%) above age 40 years, females (84.7%) .the most complication of hypertension were heart disease (82%), renal disease (5.9%), heart failure (5.1%) and stroke (3.2%).

in future the researchers need study more about hypertension risk factors such as efforts should be put on more studies about epidemiological distribution of the disease in our community.