Abstract

STUDY OF END ORGAN DAMAGE IN HYPERTENSION IN AN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL CATERING MOSTLY RURAL AND HILLY POPULATION IN INDIA

Dr. Pankaj Kumar and Dr. Varan Deep Dogra*

Abstract

A total of 2000 patients, having hypertensive complications were studied in medicine indoor of Dr. RPGMC Medical College Hospital during the period of nov 2010 to may 2015;1320 were males, 680 were females. Age ranges were 20 to 70 years. Detail history was taken, comprehensive physical examination and relevant investigations were done to detect various target organ damage. These findings were correlated with age, sex, occupation, socioeconomic status, duration of hypertension, drug compliance and other risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Incidence of end organ damage were as follows: 13.33% of males and 15.73% of females developed stroke; 20.65% of total patients developed some forms of cardiac complications, 14% had left ventricular failure, 22.19% of males had left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) 12.79 % of females had LVH; 17% of patients had renal complications; 14.65% of patients had retinopathies; 1% of patients had malignant hypertension; 2% of patients had peripheral vascular disease.

Keywords: correlated with age, sex, occupation, socioeconomic status, hypertension.