Table 1.
Characteristics of study population with hypertension and with prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension, (weighted N = 2831).
| Characteristics | Total |
Undiagnosed Hypertension (%) | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) | |||
| Age (in Years) | <0.001 | |||
| 18–29 | 267 | 9.4 | 77.8 | |
| 30–49 | 1085 | 38.3 | 65.4 | |
| 50–69 | 1101 | 38.9 | 52.7 | |
| ≥70 | 378 | 13.4 | 49.9 | |
| Gender | <0.001 | |||
| Female | 1398 | 49.4 | 56.2 | |
| Male | 1432 | 50.6 | 62.9 | |
| Education | 0.485 | |||
| No education | 1365 | 48.3 | 57.9 | |
| Primary education | 474 | 16.8 | 61.6 | |
| Secondary education | 680 | 24.0 | 61.8 | |
| College and higher | 309 | 10.9 | 59.1 | |
| Marital Status | <0.001 | |||
| Never married | 103 | 3.6 | 79.4 | |
| Married | 2308 | 81.5 | 59.6 | |
| Widowed/Divorced | 420 | 14.8 | 54.7 | |
| Body Mass Index (BMI) | <0.001 | |||
| Underweight/Normal | 1343 | 47.5 | 69.0 | |
| Overweight/Obese | 1488 | 52.5 | 51.1 | |
| Wealth index | <0.001 | |||
| Poorest | 449 | 15.9 | 73.6 | |
| Poor | 550 | 19.4 | 64.2 | |
| Middle | 476 | 16.8 | 62.8 | |
| Richer | 555 | 19.6 | 59.1 | |
| Richest | 801 | 28.3 | 47.0 | |
| Place of residence | 0.007 | |||
| Urban | 1834 | 64.8 | 57.1 | |
| Rural | 997 | 35.2 | 64.3 | |
| Ecological zone | 0.638 | |||
| Mountain | 155 | 5.5 | 61.4 | |
| Hill | 1427 | 50.4 | 60.5 | |
| The Terai | 1249 | 44.1 | 58.3 | |
| Province of Residence | 0.008 | |||
| Province 1 | 475 | 16.8 | 55.5 | |
| Province 2 | 443 | 15.6 | 57.1 | |
| Province 3 | 732 | 25.8 | 56.7 | |
| Province 4 | 399 | 14.1 | 58.0 | |
| Province 5 | 509 | 18.0 | 64.5 | |
| Province 6 | 109 | 3.9 | 73.4 | |
| Province 7 | 164 | 5.8 | 70.8 | |
| Total | 2831 | 100.0 | 59.6 | |