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Evaluation of Incidence, Causes, and Management of Hypertension among a Sample of Iraqi Young People
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ZAKARIYA AL-MASHHADANI, AMANI ANEES ABODDY , RUA ABBAS ALHAMDY , ASEEL YASSIN ALJAWARI , HADEEL YASSIN ALJAWARI
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Hypertension has a high prevalence in the general population, and it is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and renal disease. There are several groups of drugs used in treating hypertension depending on age, severity, and existing complications. This study was established to evaluate the incidence, causes, and management of hypertension among Iraqi young adult people.
Five hundred adult hypertensive patients were involved in this study with age over 18 years. A list of required data was recorded specifically for only young patients with a range of age between (18- 35) years. The study was conducted in eight months period started from July 2018 until February 2019 in three large hospitals in Baghdad.
The number of hypertension cases in young Iraqi people was 87 (17.4%) compared to 413 (82.6%) of adult patients. The risk of hypertension increased in adult young patients with elevation of lipid in their blood level (48%), Smoking (35.6%), increase weight (34.3%), (DM) (18.4%), (CVD) (12.5%), and Thyroid disease (12.5%). The most used treatment were CCBs (30%), ARBs (36%), B-blocker (17%), ACEI (5%), and Diuretic (6%).
The incidence of hypertension among Iraqi young patients was relatively high and the majority of these cases were male patients. The most effective predisposing factors were overweight, hyperlipidemia, smoking, and social-family effects especially for married women. Iraqi young patients were treated with CCBs and ARBs as main management therapy which followed the global guideline as first-line therapy. However, B-blockers still used widely in treating Iraqi young patients.
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hypertension, incidence, risk factors, anti-hypertensive drugs
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.01.372
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