Citation

Nambi S, Sivashankar P. Indian J. Public Health Dev. 2019; 10(11): 1412-1416.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, R. K. Sharma)

DOI

10.5958/0976-5506.2019.03728.8

PMID

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Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a cluster of heart and blood vessel illnesses that include heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease, rheumatic heart illness, congenital heart illness, profound vein thrombosis, and lung embolism. Cardio-vascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of suicide worldwide and an approximately 17.7 million individuals died from CVD in 2015, comprising 31% of all fatalities worldwide. CVD is the leading source of morbidity and mortality in India and accounts for 25% of all fatalities and is expected to improve to 50%. The cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the prevalence of hypertension among the Kancheepuram District rural age population, Tamil Nadu. © 2019, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; age; suicide; female; male; incidence; prevalence; education; comorbidity; occupation; risk factor; morbidity; major clinical study; rural area; controlled study; questionnaire; socioeconomics; marriage; smoking; attitude to health; family history; cerebrovascular accident; fatality; cross-sectional study; cardiovascular disease; hypertension; Hypertension; body mass; Cardiovascular diseases; nuclear family; Article