Epidemiological characteristics of patients Hypertension attended 48Hospithal in 2019
Introduction: Hypertensive is one of the most health problems in the world. People who have hypertension become high risk for other diseases . This study was conducted to identify distribution of hypertensive among patients attended 48 Hospital during 2019. Method : A cross-sectional study was conducted and collected the data of all patients diagnosed with hypertension during the year 2019 as registered by 48 medical compound. The study area has electronic information system which is data collected and filled by physician or specialist in different medical departments and outpatient clinics. The data in excel sheet contain information's about the disease including: name, age, sex and marital status, complications and laboratory tests lipid profile for each patient. Results and conclusion: Hospital registration system indicated the admission of total number of patients with hypertensive was 2225 during that year. Chi square and fisher test analysis showed that the most patients with hypertensive were with age group above 60 year (50%) , married (97.8%) , residence in Sana'a 88.4% . Females under age 60 years (62%), males above age 60 years (56.9%) and hypertension was significant with age with p-value 0.001. Hypertensive heart diseases patients without heart failure (82.7%) most them : (83%) above age 40 years , females (84.7%) and married (82.7%).The most complication of hypertension were heart disease (82%), renal disease (5.9%) , heart failure (5.1%) and stroke (3.2%). In future the researchers need study more about hypertensive risk factors such as life style changes .