Table 1.
Age-wise prevalence of point-prehypertension and point-hypertension in the population
| AGE (Yrs) | SEMI-URBAN AREA | URBAN AREA | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOYS | GIRLS | TOGETHER | BOYS | GIRLS | TOGETHER | |||||||||||||
| N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | N | PHT (%) | HT (%) | |
| 13 | 65 | 16.9 | 1.5 | 41 | 12.2 | 2.4 | 106 | 15.1 | 1.9 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 19 | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| 14 | 86 | 17.4 | 8.1 | 46 | 26.1 | 4.3 | 132 | 20.5 | 6.8 | 10 | 10.0 | 40.0 | 33 | 18.2 | 6.1 | 43 | 16.3 | 14.0 |
| 15 | 58 | 20.7 | 6.9 | 36 | 19.4 | 5.6 | 94 | 20.2 | 6.4 | 36 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 48 | 27.1 | 18.8 | 84 | 21.4 | 16.7 |
| 16 | 30 | 30.0 | 3.3 | 28 | 32.1 | 7.1 | 58 | 31.0 | 5.2 | 35 | 34.3 | 17.1 | 58 | 22.4 | 22.4 | 93 | 26.9 | 20.4 |
| 17 | 27 | 40.7 | 3.7 | 23 | 21.7 | 4.3 | 50 | 32.0 | 4.0 | 30 | 36.7 | 6.7 | 33 | 18.2 | 27.3 | 63 | 27.0 | 17.5 |
| 18 | 24 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 19 | 36.8 | 0.0 | 43 | 37.2 | 0.0 | 40 | 40.0 | 22.5 | 18 | 33.3 | 22.2 | 58 | 37.9 | 22.4 |
| Total | 290 | 23.1 | 4.8 | 193 | 20.7 | 4.1 | 483 | 22.2 | 4.6 | 154 | 29.2 | 16.9 | 206 | 21.8 | 18.0 | 360 | 25.0 | 17.5 |
PHT and HT stand for point-prehypertension and point-hypertension respectively