Indian Heart Journal (Jul 2019)

Prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults: Results from the great India blood pressure survey

  • Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan,
  • Geevar Zachariah,
  • Kartik Gupta,
  • J. Shivkumar Rao,
  • P.P. Mohanan,
  • K. Venugopal,
  • Santosh Sateesh,
  • Rishi Sethi,
  • Dharmendra Jain,
  • Neil Bardolei,
  • Kalaivani Mani,
  • Tanya Singh Kakar,
  • Bharathraj Kidambi,
  • Sudha Bhushan,
  • Sunil K. Verma,
  • Balram Bhargava,
  • Ambuj Roy,
  • Shyam S. Kothari,
  • Rajeev Gupta,
  • Sandeep Bansal,
  • Sanjay Sood,
  • Ranjit K. Nath,
  • Sanjay Tyagi,
  • Mohit D. Gupta,
  • M.P. Girish,
  • I.P.S. Kalra,
  • G.S. Wander,
  • Satish Gupta,
  • Subroto Mandal,
  • Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan,
  • Geetha Subramanyam,
  • Debabatra Roy,
  • Sibananda Datta,
  • Kajal Ganguly,
  • S.N. Routray,
  • S.S. Mishra,
  • B.P. Singh,
  • B.B. Bharti,
  • Mrinal K. Das,
  • Soumitra Kumar,
  • K.C. Goswami,
  • V.K. Bahl,
  • Sarat Chandra,
  • Amal Banerjee,
  • Santanu Guha,
  • P.K. Deb,
  • H.K. Chopra,
  • Prakash Deedwania,
  • Ashok Seth,
  • J. Shivkumar Rao,
  • B.P. Singh,
  • B.B. Bharti,
  • A.K. Sinha,
  • Kartik Gupta,
  • Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan,
  • Sudha Bhushan,
  • Sunil K. Verma,
  • Balram Bhargava,
  • Ambuj Roy,
  • Sandeep Bansal,
  • Sanjay Sood,
  • H.S. Isser,
  • Neeraj Pandit,
  • Ranjit K. Nath,
  • Sanjay Tyagi,
  • Vijay Trehan,
  • Mohit D. Gupta,
  • M.P. Girish,
  • Ramandeep Ahuja,
  • S.C. Manchanda,
  • Arun Mohanty,
  • Peeyush Jain,
  • Sameer Shrivastava,
  • I.P.S. Kalra,
  • B.S. Sarang,
  • H.S. Ratti,
  • G. Bala Sahib,
  • Rakesh Gupta,
  • S.K. Agarwal,
  • Amit,
  • K.C. Goswami,
  • V.K. Bahl,
  • H.K. Chopra,
  • Ashok Seth,
  • Geevar Zachariah,
  • P.P. Mohanan,
  • K. Venugopal,
  • George Koshy,
  • Tiny Nair,
  • N. Shyam,
  • Anil Roby,
  • Raju George,
  • Sudhaya Kumar,
  • Abdul Kader,
  • Mathew Abraham,
  • Sunitha Viswanathan,
  • A. Jabir,
  • Jaideep Menon,
  • Govindan Unni,
  • Cibu Mathew,
  • PB Jayagopal Sajeev,
  • P.K. Ashokan,
  • Asharaf,
  • Subroto Mandal,
  • A.K. Pancholia,
  • Neil Bardolei,
  • A.K. Gupta,
  • Neil Bardolei,
  • Rupam Das,
  • Dinesh Aggarwal,
  • Amit Malviya,
  • S.N. Routray,
  • S.S. Mishra,
  • Syed Manzor Ali,
  • Parag Barward,
  • Navreet Singh,
  • Yashbir S. Tomar,
  • Davinder Chaddha,
  • Sameer Dani,
  • Chirayu Vyas,
  • Kinjal Bhatt,
  • Shrenik Doshi,
  • G.S. Wander,
  • Satish Gupta,
  • Chandra Bhan Meena,
  • Santosh Sateesh,
  • Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan,
  • Geetha Subramanyam Subramanyam,
  • Ajit Mullasari Muruganandam,
  • Rishi Sethi,
  • Varun Narain,
  • R.K. Saran,
  • Dharmendra Jain,
  • Praveen Jain,
  • Sudeep Kumar,
  • P.K. Goel,
  • Debabatra Roy,
  • Sibananda Datta,
  • Kajal Ganguly,
  • M.K. Das,
  • Soumitra Kumar,
  • Sarat Chandra Amal Banerjee,
  • Santanu Guha,
  • P.K. Deb

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 71, no. 4
pp. 309 – 313

Abstract

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Objective: Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There is limited data on hypertension prevalence in India. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of hypertension among Indian adults. Methods: A national level survey was conducted with fixed one-day blood pressure measurement camps across 24 states and union territories of India. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure (BP) ≥140 mmHg or a diastolic BP ≥90 mmHg or on treatment for hypertension. The prevalence was age- and gender-standardized according to the 2011 census population of India. Results: Blood pressure was recorded for 180,335 participants (33.2% women; mean age 40.6 ± 14.9 years). Among them, 8,898 (4.9%), 99,791 (55.3%), 35,694 (11.9%), 23,084 (12.8%), 9,989 (5.5%), and 2,878 (1.6%) participants were of the age group 18–19, 20–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65–74, and ≥ 75 years, respectively. Overall prevalence of hypertension was 30.7% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 30.5, 30.9) and the prevalence among women was 23.7% (95% CI: 23.3, 24). Prevalence adjusted for 2011 census population and the WHO reference population was 29.7% and 32.8%, respectively. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of hypertension, with almost one in every three Indian adult affected. Keywords: Hypertension, India, Prevalence