Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: July | Volume: 8 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 453-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210763
Association of Metabolic Syndrome and Blood Pressure in Patients with Essential Hypertension
Abhishek Kumar Chandra1, Anurag Kumar2, Ansuman Dalbehera3, Prakash Chandra Singh4
1Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Gauri Devi Institute of Medical Science, Durgapur, West Bengal;
2Assistant Professor, Traumatic and Emergency, General Surgery, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar;
3Senior Consultant Dept of Medicine, Batra Hospital Medical Research Centre, New Delhi;
4Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics Gauri Devi Institute of Medical Science, Durgapur (WB)
Corresponding Author: Abhishek Kumar Chandra
ABSTRACT
Objective: In Indian hypertensive patients, to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of the MS was the main objective of the present study.
Material and Method: Current study was conducted in a tertiary care OPD among 130 patients who were diagnosed with essential hypertension. Any patients who were more that 18 years of age and diagnosed with essential hypertension and willing to participate in the study were included. By routine laboratory techniques which is generally used at NABL accredited private or government testing laboratories for analysis of lipid profile total cholesterol, total triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol were assayed.
Result: Average MS score were high in both the male and female group. Both male and female groups patients receives adequate blood pressure lowering treatment. In both the groups maximum patients were in ARB therapy. All parameters which are related to occurrence of metabolic syndrome like, abdominal obesity, Total Cholesterol (TC), Triglycerides (TG), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), fasting blood glucose (FBG) and uric acids were significantly higher in both male and female patients than the control one.
Conclusion: Current study conclude that, in Indian hypertensive patients, especially in females, metabolic syndrome was highly prevalent.
Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, metabolic risk factors, hhypertension,
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