Prevalence of Proteinuria among Hypertensive Patients in Khartoum State

Abstract

Background: Hypertension defines as a rise in persistent force per unit area with heartbeat one hundred forty mmHg and pulse pulse ninety mmHg. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease is calculable to be 27.6%. Cardiovascular disease in Sudanese people was related to high sugar and salt intake, fat and increase in age. Reduction of each sugar and salt intake is a very important and efficient method for reducing cardiovascular disease and also the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and will be advocated by the health authorities and also the public in Sudan. Uncontrolled cardiovascular disease ends up in organ injury, inflicting strokes, heart attacks, retinopathy, or excretory organ disorders. The presence of macromolecule in body waste will be a marker of excretory organ abnormality. Aim: the present study was amid to assess the prevalence of Proteinuria in hypertensive Sudanese patients in Khartoum state. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study was conducted using a total sampling of 50 in hypertensive Sudanese patients. Samples were examined their blood pressure and urine of by cobas c311 systems. The data was collected by questionnaire, then analyzed by computer using SPSS version 23. Results: most of the participant 52% of was male and 48% were female. most of participant presented among age 35-45 years, majority of them had secondary level of education, and most of them were married ,most of them had duration of hypertension more than 10 years and had DM as other disease with hypertension, There was insignificant association between age group and Proteinuria (P.value was 0.343) , insignificant association between gender and Proteinuria (P.value was 0.546) ,insignificant association between other disease and Proteinuria (P.value was 0.373) and There was significant association between duration of disease and Proteinuria (P.value was 0.001). Conclusion: we find that there was a significant relationship between blood pressure and Proteinuria examination results.