Prevalence, Associated Risk and Interventional Programs for Managing Hypertension (HTN): A Review

With the changed Indian generation, the dietary habits and lifestyle patterns are changing. Coupled with this, owing to prevalence of enormous temperature variation with ecological imbalance, different physical ailments have become imminent. Normal range of blood pressure in the body is 130/85 mmHg (for adults ≥18 years) where, 130 is systolic and 85 is diastolic blood pressure. Hypertension (HTN) is an asymptomatic condition, symptoms do not rise unless the complications develop which results in delayed diagnosis and treatment especially among the uneducated and unexplained social groups such as rural population. prevalence of HTN in rural Indian population also showed that prevalence (%) of HTN was maximum in Kerela (36%) followed by Himachal Pradesh (35.9%), Assam (33.0%), and Uttarakhand (32.3%). The scenario was better in the states like Maharashtra (7.2%), Haryana (9.3%) and Delhi (14%). This article attempts to review the meaning and spread of HTN, relation between diet and HTN, life style and HTN, obesity and HTN and the associated risk of HTN. Also, what planned awareness programmes have been intervened globally for managing HTN has been reviewed in this article.