Table 3.
Clinical characteristics of adult hypertensive patients on outpatient follow-up at UOGRH, Gondar, northwest Ethiopia, 2016 (n=395)
| Variables | Blood pressure control status
|
Chi-square (X2) | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controlled | Uncontrolled | |||
| Family history of HTN | ||||
| Yes | 40 | 34 | 0.492 | 0.483 |
| No | 159 | 162 | ||
| Knowledge about HTN | ||||
| Good | 62 | 62 | 0.013 | 0.993 |
| Medium | 72 | 70 | ||
| Poor | 65 | 64 | ||
| Diabetes mellitus | ||||
| Yes | 46 | 61 | 3.205 | 0.073 |
| No | 153 | 135 | ||
| Other chronic comorbidities | ||||
| Yes | 39 | 42 | 0.203 | 0.652 |
| No | 160 | 154 | ||
| Body mass index | ||||
| Underweight | 17 | 10 | 8.645 | 0.034 |
| Normal | 103 | 84 | ||
| Overweight | 52 | 77 | ||
| Obese | 27 | 25 | ||
| Waist circumference | ||||
| Low risk | 44 | 66 | 6.610 | 0.037 |
| Increased risk | 59 | 48 | ||
| High risk | 96 | 82 | ||
| Adherence | ||||
| Low | 4 | 19 | 25.381 | <0.001 |
| Medium | 36 | 64 | ||
| High | 159 | 113 | ||
| Number of anti-hypertensives taken | ||||
| One | 103 | 97 | 0.206 | 0.902 |
| Two | 91 | 94 | ||
| Three | 5 | 5 | ||
| Duration on anti-hypertensives | ||||
| ≤2 years | 24 | 49 | 11.482 | 0.003 |
| 2–4 years | 74 | 68 | ||
| ≥5 years | 101 | 79 | ||
Abbreviations: UOGRH, University of Gondar Referral Hospital; HTN, hypertension.