Medisan (Jun 2017)
Risk factors of hypertension in patients from Ghana
Abstract
An analytic-observational cases and controls non paired study of 150 patients assisted in the outpatient service of Ho Municipal Hospital in the Republic of Ghana was carried out during one year (from 2013 to 2014), of which 50 suffered from hypertension (cases) and 100 were not hipertensive (controls), aimed at determining the degree of causal association between the risk factors and the emergence of this disease. Variables were statistically validated by means of the odds ratio, with a 95% confidence interval; the Mantel-Haenszel chi square test and the attributable risk in exposed percentage, to determine the factor of more impact in this population. In the series there was a prevalence of the patients from the male sex, older than 40 years, exposed to risks so important as obesity and physical inactivity that showed a significant association as cause of hypertension, with higher impact of the first one.
