Table 2.
Taking medicines regularly |
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Yes |
No |
P valuea | |||
n | % | n | % | ||
Age (years) | |||||
≤55 | 123 | 50 | 24 | 44.40 | 0.460 |
>55 | 123 | 50 | 30 | 55.60 | |
Gender | |||||
Male | 137 | 55.70 | 21 | 38.90 | .025* |
Female | 109 | 44.30 | 33 | 61.10 | |
Monitoring BP | |||||
Yes | 146 | 59.30 | 13 | 24.10 | <0.001** |
No | 100 | 40.70 | 41 | 75.90 | |
Comorbidities | |||||
Diabetes | 13 | 5.30 | 1 | 1.90 | 0.194 |
IHD | 109 | 44.30 | 32 | 59.30 | |
Diabetes and IHD both | 79 | 32.10 | 12 | 22.20 | |
None | 45 | 18.30 | 9 | 1.00 | |
Duration of HTN (years) | |||||
≤5 | 114 | 46.30 | 34 | 63 | .018* |
6-10 | 82 | 33.30 | 17 | 31.50 | |
≥11 | 50 | 20.30 | 3 | 5.60 |
Note. BP = blood pressure; IHD = ischemic heart disease; HTN = hypertension.
Chi-square test applied.
p-value <0.05, **p-value <0.001.