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Abstract EN

Background : high blood pressure is one of several risk factors that can increase your chance of developing heart disease, a stroke, and other serious conditions.

Inspire of medical progress that involve diagnostic methods for hypertension, pathogenesis of primary hypertension still remains not fully detected.

However ; the important role of family history and genetics were considered.

Methods : 122 adult individuals of either sex were questioned and examined.

Blood pressure was measured for a subjects using mercury- sphygmomanometer.

Systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were recorded by skilled mercury method, and the mean BP was calculated according to the formula (diastolic blood pressure+1 / 3pulse pressure).

Body mass index was measured also.

Results : A significant number of subjects reported a positive family history of hypertension.

Some subjects with a family history of hypertension had higher diastolic BP others had higher systolic.

Conclusions : A family history of hypertension was significant risk factors for the development to hypertensions and other pathological manifestations which can develop in high risk individuals.

Health professionals should therefore utilize every opportunity to include direct family members in health education.