Research Article
Hypertension-Related Admissions and Outcome in a Tertiary Hospital in Northeast Nigeria
Table 2
Shows comparison of baseline characteristics of survivors and nonsurvivors of hypertension admissions.
| | Parameter | survivors (Mean ± SD) | non-survivors (Mean ± SD) | -value |
| | Number (%) | 483 (65.7) | 252 (34.3) | | | Age (years) | 53.9 (15) | 58.4 (15.4) | 0.001* | | Duration of SH (years) | 7.6 (7.5) | 8.8 (8.1) | 0.041* | | Weight (kg) | 65.9 (8.8) | 68.6 (11.4) | 0.002* | | Height (m) | 1.68 (0.07) | 1.69 (0.07) | 0.28 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 23.3 (2.5) | 24.1 (3.5) | 0.01* | | Pulse (beats/min) | 82.4 (15.4) | 87.6 (17.9) | 0.001* | | SBP (mmHg) | 161.6 (15.4) | 169.5 (17.9) | 0.001* | | DBP (mmHg) | 97.5 (9.9) | 101.8 (13.5) | 0.001* | | DOA (days) | 11.7 (13.6) | 6.6 (7.8) | 0.001* | | HBP awareness (%) | 326 (67.5) | 172 (68.3) | 0.8 | | Drug compliance (%) | 179 (37.1) | 90 (35.7) | 0.7 | | Alcohol use (number %) | 57 (11.8) | 32 (12.7) | 0.7 | | Smoking (number %) | 16 (3.3) | 9 (3.6) | 0.85 | | Diabetes (number %) | 89 (18.4) | 53 (21.0) | 0.4 | | Stroke/TIA (number %) | 198 (60.7) | 128 (39.3) | | | HHF (number %) | 148 (72.5) | 56 (27.5) | | | HBP emergencies (%) | 85 (69.1) | 38 (30.9) | | | CKD (number %) | 52 (63.4) | 30 (36.6) | |
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SD: standard deviation, SH: systemic hypertension, BMI: body mass index, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: iastolic blood pressure, DOA: duration on admission, TIA: transient ischaemic attack, HHF: hypertensive heart failure, CKD: chronic kidney disease.
*Statistically significant.
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