QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG HYPERTENSION POPULATION AGE 45 YEARSAND ABOVE IN KATHMANDU VALLEY NEPAL: A HOSPITAL BASED CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Abstract

The importance of the issue, in recent years, the disease has a high prevalence of the disease is higher in countries with low income. But there is a constant among the countries with high income. According to the World Health Organization It is estimated that in the year 2573 population of almost 23.6 million people will die from cardiovascular disease. The main cause of heart disease and intracranial hemorrhage. The main purpose of this research. To study the factors that affect quality of life. Patients with hypertension aged 45 years and over at the hospital. In the city of Kathmandu, Nepal. Method The study is based on cross-sectional study. In patients with hypertension aged 45 years and over were calculated by Cochran of patients with high blood pressure, which in 2549 had a rate of 22.7 percent, according to a selected sample. conveniently Analyzed using descriptive statistics to summarize the physical characteristics of the sample and one-way ANOVA test to determine the relationship between independent variables and the dependent variable. Result: A sample of 300 people were male, 55.3 percent female, 44.7 percent were high blood pressure, age range 51-60 years, or at least as high blood pressure at age 71 years and over are married and live. with 86.7 percent, 12 percent did not receive a school education, 56.3 percent of nonsmokers and 59 percent of those who do not drink alcohol disease, high blood pressure and 64 percent have no medical MRI. 20.3 percent had diabetes, found that age, income, duration of disease, high blood pressure and duration of oral disease, high blood pressure. And the patient's underlying disease Is related to the quality of life of patients suffering from high blood pressure. And responding to the impact of the quality of life of patients with hypertension at the age of 45 years.