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Prevalence, awareness, risk factors and control of hypertension in Nepal from 2000 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Determination of level of self-reported adherence of antihypertensive drug(s) and its associated factors among patient with hypertension at a tertiary care center.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2022Article
- Medication non-compliance: A challenge in treating hypertension in Nepal.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Relationship between cigarette smoking and blood pressure in adults in Nepal: A population-based cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Objective: To analyse published literatures on prevalence, awareness, risk factors and control of hypertension in Nepal. Methods: We used electronic databases to search relevant articles from January 2000 till October 2020. All relevant data from selected studies were extracted into a standardized form designed in Excel. Statistical analysis was conducted using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (CMA) version 3. Proportions or Odds Ratio (OR) was used to estimate the outcome with 95% confidence interval (CI). The I-squared (I Results: We identified a total of 3726 studies after comprehensive database searching. We performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of 40 studies. Pooling data showed 28.52% of patients with hypertension (CI: 26.40-30.75); 45.28% (CI: 38.89-51.83) aware of their high blood pressure; 31.66% (CI: 23.18-41.56) under treatment; 44.4% (CI: 36.17-53.04) had their blood pressure under optimum range. 27.4% (CI: 21.57-34.11) had pre-hypertensive range elevated blood pressure. 25.99% (CI: 21.81-30.65) of females and 34.25% (CI: 30.49-38.21) of male were hypertensive (p = 0.007).The pooling of data showed smokers have 1.43 times (CI: 1.1429-1.7889); and alcohol users have 2.073 times (CI: 1.7154-2.5050) higher risk of having hypertension. Individuals with normal BMI have 53.15% (OR: 0.4685 CI: 0.3543-0.6195); with formal educated have 37.27% (OR: 0.6273, CI: 0.5485-0.7175); and with adequate exercise have 31.6% (OR: 0.6839, CI: 0.5203-0.8991) lower chance of having hypertension. Conclusion: Our study shows the prevalence of hypertension in Nepal is high. However, awareness, treatment and subsequently control of high blood pressure are found to be alarmingly low. Hypertension was associated with male gender, smoking, alcohol use, high BMI, no education and inadequate exercise. It calls for more attention to address the burden of hypertension and associated risk factors in Nepal.
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