Belal AA. Factors responsible for prevalence of cardiovascular disease among patients with elevated blood pressure. Series Med Sci. 2024;5(1):1-10.
In this paper, an attempt was made to identify the risk factors associated with the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Bangladeshi patients with elevated blood pressure. The patients were observed in investigating 995 adults of 18 years and above. The data of these adults were collected from some diagnostic centers located in urban and semi-urban areas when the adults were visiting the centers for their blood and urine screening tests. Among the investigated adults, 452 were patients with elevated blood pressure; 39 of these patients were suffering from CVD. The objective of the study was to identify some socioeconomic factors for the simultaneous prevalence of the diseases among the group of 39 patients. The risk of these two non-communicable diseases was significantly higher for younger adults, for physically inactive adults, and for diabetic patients of early stages. Higher risk was also noted for non-Muslim people, females, secondary educated persons, housewives, adults belonging to families of upper medium economic condition, processed food consumers, and underweight adults. The patients’ group was well discriminated from others for the variables age, habit of doing physical work, and economic condition.
