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Introduction
The world wide most common cardiovascular disease is known as Hypertension. Around, in 30% of globe population, the number of hypertensive adults will reach 1.5 billion by 2025. Advanced severity and high prevalence of hypertension are in elderly women than in elderly men. Methods & Results: This study was conducted to observe stress levels in women with hypertension. Total 20, 10 hypertensive and 10 age matched controls were part of the study. DASS 42 a standard questionnaire was used to assess depression, anxiety and stress. Data was analyzed by SPSS 20.0. Student t test was used to observe significance of difference between the groups. We observed significantly high depression, anxiety and stress levels in females with hypertension when compared with healthy controls. Conclusion: Our results show that there is need of more studies in this area for better indulgent of association of stress and hypertension and also to develop better intervention for hypertension.
Key words: anxiety, hypertension, women, cardiovascular.
Received: 15 May, 2019 Revised: 02 June 2019 Accepted: 05 June 2019
Corresponding author: Dr. Pooja Gahlot, (M.S. Gynae & Obs.) Assistant Professor Department of Gyne& Obs. P.D.U Medical College Churu, Rajasthan, India
This article may be cited as: Gahlot A, Gahlot P, Acharya J. A Correlation between Stress Level and Hypertension in Females: A Hospital Based Observational Study. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2019;7(8): 234-235.
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