Circadian blood pressure within young adults in Viet Nam: An exploratory study comparing a normal blood pressure group and a prehypertension group
2015 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Hypertension is a global disease that many effected people in developing countries is not aware of. Hypertension is linked with cardiovascular disease. Prehypertension is not a disease but if not correctly treated, it could develop into hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate if there are any differences in circadian blood pressure between two study groups, one group with normal blood pressure and one group with prehypertension. This study was a explorative study and its design is based on measurements of blood pressure values and a questionnaire was used to help get the data collection. 51 students volunteered to have their blood pressure taken from them and out of these 51, 24 where selected into two groups of 12 each for the Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
hese 24 students would be a part of our study and an ambulatory (Schiller-102 plus) blood pressure monitor was used to collect the data. The prevalence of prehypertension findings in the clinical testing phase was 37% of the population. There was a variation between the groups during the day (systolic) but there was not a significant difference during the night.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
Prehypertension, ambulatory blood pressure, Blood pressure, oscillometric blood pressureHypertension is a global disease that many effected people in developing countries is not aware of. Hypertension is linked with cardiovascular disease. Prehypertension is not a disease but if not correctly treated, it could develop into hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate if there are any differences in circadian blood pressure between two study groups, one group with normal blood pressure and one group with prehypertension. This study was a explorative study and its design is based on measurements of blood pressure values and a questionnaire was used to help get the data collection. 51 students volunteered to have their blood pressure taken from them and out of these 51, 24 where selected into two groups of 12 each for the Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. hese 24 students would be a part of our study and an ambulatory (Schiller-102 plus) blood pressure monitor was used to collect the data. The prevalence of prehypertension findings in the clinical testing phase was 37% of the population. There was a variation between the groups during the day (systolic) but there was not a significant difference during the night.
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-27797ISRN: JU-HHJ-BLA-1-20150012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-27797DiVA, id: diva2:849640
Subject / course
HHJ, Biomedical Laboratory Science
Presentation
2015-06-02, 10, Hälsohögskolan Jönköping, Jönköping, 08:00 (Swedish)
Examiners
2015-08-312015-08-292015-08-31Bibliographically approved