1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, KAiMS, Karwar
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, SNMC, Bagalkot
3Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, JNMC, Specialist in Diabetes, Diabetes Centre, KLE's Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital & M.R.C, KLE University, Belagavi
Online published on 11 April, 2017.
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease with substantial socio economic consequences. The prevalence of hypertension in the last six decades has increased from 2% to 25% among urban residents and from 2% to 15% among the rural residents in India. This study was done to evaluate the implication of ‘rule of halves’ as an assessment tool for detecting the status of awareness, management and control measures for hypertension in the community.
A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among subjects aged 30 years and above among residents of urban area Ashoknagar. A sample of 300 was selected by systematic random sampling. Informed consent was obtained. A predefined pre-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data on sociodemographic characters and also regarding diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.
The overall prevalence of hypertension in urban area was 38.3% (115/300). Among them 67(53.1%) of them were already diagnosed of hypertension, of which 47(77.1%) of them were on treatment. Of the 47 on treatment, 30(63.8%) of them had Blood pressure under control.
Comparing with rule of halves, our study showed the population had poor awareness, relatively better treatment and adequate control of Hypertension.
Rule, Halves, Urban, Implication
