Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Municipalities of Kathmandu, Nepal
Table 1
Distribution of sociodemographic characteristics by gender.
Variables
Categories
Male
Female
Total
value
(%)
(%)
(%)
Age groups
<30 years
49 (20.2)
69 (20.0)
118 (20.1)
0.147
30–39 years
47 (19.4)
90 (26.1)
137 (23.3)
40–49 years
69 (28.5)
81 (23.5)
150 (25.6)
50–59 years
37 (15.3)
63 (18.3)
100 (17.0)
>60 years
40 (16.5)
42 (12.2)
82 (14.0)
Education
No formal education
29 (12.0)
143 (41.4)
172 (29.3)
<0.01
Primary and lower
30 (12.4)
53 (15.4)
83 (14.1)
Secondary
64 (26.4)
65 (18.8)
129 (22.0)
Higher Secondary
52 (21.5)
47 (13.6)
99 (16.9)
Bachelor and higher
67 (27.7)
37 (10.7)
104 (17.7)
Ethnicity
Brahman
95 (39.3)
111 (32.2)
206 (35.1)
0.246
Chetri
68 (28.1)
103 (29.9)
171 (29.1)
Newar
48 (19.8)
71 (20.6)
119 (20.3)
Others
31 (12.8)
60 (17.4)
91 (15.5)
Occupation
Job
66 (27.3)
35 (10.1)
101 (17.2)
<0.01
Self-employed
87 (36.0)
54 (15.7)
141 (24.0)
Homemaker
30 (12.4)
212 (61.4)
242 (41.2)
Others
59 (24.4)
44 (12.8)
103 (17.5)
Marital status
Unmarried
36 (14.9)
32 (9.3)
68 (11.6)
<0.01
Married
204 (84.3)
283 (82.0)
487 (83)
Others (separated or widow)
2 (0.8)
30 (8.7)
32 (5.5)
Socioeconomic status
Below poverty line
115 (47.9)
170 (49.7)
285 (49.0)
0.671
Above poverty line
125 (52.1)
172 (50.3)
297 (51.0)
Note: primary and lower education, grade 1–5; secondary, grade 6–10; higher secondary, grade 11-12; job, governmental or nongovernmental employment; self-employed, working for oneself as a freelancer or the owner of a business or working in own farm; homemaker, a person, especially a housewife, who manages a home; other occupations, volunteer or student or unemployed or retired; below poverty line, income less than 40,933 Nepalese Rupees per annum.
