Burden of Hypertension in the Capital of Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study in Kabul City, 2015

Table 1

Frequency distribution of demographic characteristics of the study participants, Kabul city ().

Variables	Categories	Female		Male		Total
		N	%	N	%	N	%
Age	25–34	301	50.3	291	50.8	592	50.5
	35–44	158	26.4	131	22.9	289	24.7
	45–54	89	14.9	76	13.3	165	14.1
	55+	51	8.5	75	13.1	126	10.8
Level of education	Illiterate	370	62.8	205	36	575	49.6
	Primary and unofficial	86	14.6	116	20.4	202	17.4
	Secondary school	72	12.2	154	27	226	19.5
	High school and over	43	7.3	75	13.2	118	10.2
Job categories	Official employees	53	8.9	120	21.1	173	14.8
	Students	7	1.2	10	1.8	17	1.5
	Private business	5	0.8	50	8.8	55	4.7
	Worker/farmer	1	0.2	76	13.3	77	6.6
	Jobless	9	1.5	52	9.1	61	5.2
	Housework	356	59.7	12	2.1	368	31.6
	Unable to work	165	27.7	250	43.9	415	35.6
Monthly income in AFN	Less than 10000	5	3.8	11	13.9	16	7.6
	More than 10000	127	96.2	68	86.1	195	92.4
Marital status	Single	54	9.1	82	14.5	136	11.7
	Married	460	77.7	437	77.2	897	77.5
	Widow/widower	43	7.3	11	1.9	54	4.7
	Divorced	4	0.7	2	0.4	6	0.5