Epidemiology Research International

Research Article

Behavioural Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases among Nepalese Urban Poor: A Descriptive Study from a Slum Area of Kathmandu

Table 4

Prevalence of hypertension in the study population according to demographic variables (). Hypertensives included those who self-reported as having hypertension or those who had high blood pressure according to JNC-VII classification [21] during the time of survey.


	Male		Female		Total
		%		%		%

Age (years)
15–24	11	14.7	7	6.0	18	9.4
25–34	12	21.4	17	15.6	29	17.6
35–44	26	42.6	34	39.1	60	40.5
45–54	24	50.0	18	34.0	42	41.6
55–64	18	62.1	11	47.8	29	55.8
≥65	8	57.1	7	41.2	15	48.4
Ethnicity
Hill Dalit	14	42.4	12	18.2	26	26.3
Disadvantaged Janajatis (Hill)	39	34.5	47	25.4	86	28.9
Relatively advantaged Janajatis	13	38.2	12	40.0	25	39.1
Upper caste groups	30	33.7	20	17.9	50	24.9
Others	3	21.4	3	23.1	6	22.2
Highest education
No formal education	34	47.9	61	29.2	95	33.9
Less than primary	7	25.9	2	10.5	9	19.6
Primary completed	34	31.2	20	18.9	54	25.1
Secondary completed	16	27.6	8	14.5	24	21.2
High school or more	8	44.4	3	17.6	11	31.4
Occupation
Employed (government/nongovernment)	20	34.5	3	9.4	23	25.6
Self-employed	49	35.8	30	27.5	79	32.1
Student	3	14.3	3	7.9	6	10.2
Housewife	—	—	37	23.3	37	23.3
Unemployed (able to work)	16	36.4	12	26.7	28	31.5
Others	11	57.9	9	39.1	20	47.6
Migration (years)
<1	5	17.9	4	10.5	9	13.6
1–5	20	46.5	16	19.5	36	28.8
5–10	32	32.7	31	22.5	63	26.6
>10	42	36.8	43	29.3	85	32.6
Income status (NRs) ()
1st quartile (≤5000)	15	27.3	18	19.8	33	22.6
2nd quartile (5001–7000)	13	40.6	10	28.6	23	34.3
3rd quartile (7001–10000)	21	41.2	10	23.8	31	33.3
4th quartile (≥10000)	21	35.6	8	30.8	29	34.1

Total	99	35.0	94	23.2	193	28.0

NRs: Nepalese rupees.