A Statistical Analysis of Hypertension as Cardiovascular Risk Factor

There was a continuous, strong and graded relation between blood pressure and cardiovascular disease but no clear threshold value separated hypertensive patients who would experience future cardiovascular events from those who will not. 600 patients were examined. T test, Chi square test and Logistic Regression were applied. According to T test 253 were hypertensive and 357 were not. The % age of hypertension was 42.2%. The frequency of cardiovascular patient was 344 out of 600. The % age of cardiovascular patients was 57.3%. The present study suggests that numerous factors definitely increase cardiovascular risk including age, sex, family history, raised cholesterol, smoking, diabetes mellitus, obesity, sedentary lifestyle and left ventricular hypertrophy.