Complications and Lipid Parameters Status among 50 Years and above Age Group Hypertension Population at Primary Health Care Centres of Buraidah City

As we all know that Hypertension problem increasing in all over the world. Being Family Medicine specialists, in addition to detection of hypertension problem at early stage and also need to focus more and more on complications identification at the earliest and suggesting proper remedial and life style measures periodically insisting and educating them, minimizing the burden on spending amount by the government and also good quality of life of the individual.

To identify the complications of hypertension and lipid profile status among study population.

A cross sectional institutional based record review study conducted at primary health centers of Buraidah City from January 2018 to June 2018 among 170 persons records 50 years old and above in the concerned primary health care centers. After getting institutional ethical committee clearance, data entered in Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and necessary statistical tests like simple proportions and chi square tests were applied.

In the study population, about 47.7% were having abnormal triglycerides. among the abnormal triglycerides study group, the prevalence of hypertension with complications was 33.3%. About 20.6% (35/170) individuals were having different complications. Of which, Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) was identified as common complication which accounts 15.3% of all complications noticed in the study population.

Based on the study results, majority of the people were having abnormal lipid parameters and most common complication identified in the study population was ischaemic heart disease. Need strategies to identify the complications at the early stage at primary health care centers for the guidance in the management of the complications.