Prevalence and distribution of hypertension among the patients presenting for surgery under anaesthesia in a tertiary care hospital in South India

Authors

  • Deepak T. Paulose Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry
  • Joseph I. Raajesh Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry
  • Lakeen Puthupattan Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20151592

Keywords:

Hypertension, Prevalence, Anaesthesia, Surgery, South India

Abstract

Background: Untreated perioperative hypertension can have deleterious effect on patient outcome following surgery. Therefore, many anaesthesiologists prefer to have elective surgeries deferred till the blood pressure is under control. This results in delay and inconvenience to the patient. We designed this study to determine the magnitude of this problem.

Methods: The pre-anaesthesia records of 400 consecutive patients who underwent surgery under general or regional anaesthesia were reviewed. They were grouped into known hypertensive, newly detected hypertensive in the present visit or normal.

Results: 6.4% of patients in the above 40 year age group, who are the population at risk for developing hypertension, had newly detected hypertension. Higher percentage of women than men in this age group were hypertensive though not statistically significant. The prevalence of hypertension (the sum of known hypertensive and newly detected hypertensive patients) was 9.25% in our study. In the above 40 age group this figure was 18.8%. Significantly higher numbers of women were hypertensive as compared to men (23.4% vs 11.6%) in this age group.

Conclusions: Our findings show that the number of newly detected hypertensive patients in the surgical population is low and hence this does not pose a significant problem. The percentage of newly detected hypertension and the prevalence of hypertension in the present study are lower than that reported in the general population from other parts of India. This warrants further studies in our geographical area to determine if similar trend exists in the general population too.

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2017-01-31

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Paulose, D. T., Raajesh, J. I., & Puthupattan, L. (2017). Prevalence and distribution of hypertension among the patients presenting for surgery under anaesthesia in a tertiary care hospital in South India. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 3(1), 363–366. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20151592

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