International Journal of Contemporary Medicine
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

To Study the Prevalence of Microalbuminuria among Essential Hypertensives

  • Author:
  • Vinay Sindhu1,, Sunny Khari2, Yatish1, Ankita Sharma1, Kameshwer Prashad3
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 72 to 77

1Post Graduate IIIrd year, Department of General Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, (U.P.)

2Post Graduate Ist Year, Department of General Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, (U.P)

3Professor and HOD, Department of General Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, (U.P.)

*Corresponding author: Vinay Sindhu Post Graduate IIIrd year, Department of General Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, (U.P), G-mail: vinaysindhu11@gmail.com Mobile: 9759148201

Online published on 15 February, 2017.

Abstract

To study the prevalence of microalbuminuria among essential hypertensive patients.

A group of 110 patients with Essential Hypertension formed the sample& investigated. P value was calculated by using analysis of variance test (ANOVA) & P value <0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Maximum number of patients were in the age group of 51–60 years (28 patients, 25.4%), followed by the age group 41–50 years (26 patients, 23.6%) and least were in the age group < 30 years (1 patients, 0.9%), followed by the age group >80 years (6 patients, 5.4%). It can be seen that maximum number of patients (60 patients, 54.5%) had urinary microalbumin in the normal range. 32 patients or 29% had levels between 30–300 and 18 patients had levels more than 300. Hence, the prevalence of Microalbuminuria among Essential Hypertensives in our study is 29%. It can be seen that more males than females were normoalbuminuric, in terms of absolute numbers (34), and also in terms of percentage(55.7%). Meanwhile, more females were microalbuminuric in terms of percentage (30.6%), but not in absolute numbers(15). However, among the patients who were microalbuminuric, there were more males (17) than females (15).

The prevalence of Microalbuminuria is significant among patients suffering from essential hypertension (29%). Microalbuminuria is an independent risk factor for development/worsening of Hypertensive Nephropathy and endothelial dysfunction, thereby increasing the risk of micro and macrovascular complications. at last we recommended that a large case control study is required to find better understanding of microalbuminuria in essential hypertension.

Keywords

Coronary heart disease (CHD), Congestive heart failure (CHF), Essential hypertension (EHT), urinary albumin excretion (UAE)