Hypertensive Crisis, Burden, Management, and Outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients overall, with hypertensive crisis and without hypertensive crisis ().

Characteristics	Overall	Hypertensive crisis	No hypertensive crisis	value*
		(56.3)	(43.7)
	(%)	(%)	(%)
Mean age (SD)	56.72 (14.78)	55.92 (15.09)	57.75 (14.36)	0.22
Male gender	175 (45.2)	89 (41)	86 (50.6)	0.03
Smoking	54 (14.0)	34 (15.6)	20 (11.8)	0.18
Dyslipidemia	167 (43.2)	87 (39.9)	80 (47.3)	0.08
Diabetes mellitus	143 (37.0)	77 (35.3)	66 (39.1)	0.25
Ischemic heart disease	83 (21.4)	34 (15.6)	49 (29)	0.001
Cerebrovascular accident	26 (6.7)	14 (6.4)	12 (7.1)	0.47

value < 0.05 was taken as significant; it is calculated for hypertensive crisis and no hypertensive crisis.