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The Effect Of Weight On Blood Pressure Of Hypertensive Patients
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It is the duty of stakeholders in health sectors to keep the adult folk
aware of the implication of over-weight by providing them with accurate,
timely and up to date information regarding this health condition. It
is also the duty of health personnel to warn and educate adults who are
more prone to high blood pressure, about the dangers of over-weight in
the management of high blood pressure. This awareness is expected to
affect the feeding habit of these people, since it has been observed
that poor feeding (that is, poor combination of the classes of food, not
necessarily the quantity) is one of the causes of over-weight. Sacks
F.M (2008).
Statistics have it that between the years 2000 and 2008,
there has been about fourty percent (40%) increase in the number of
people having high blood pressure. Manson J (2009). Another statistics
show that in 2005, sixty percent (60%) of people suffering from high
blood pressure were suffering also from kidney failure and heart
disease, and that high blood pressure was identified as the remote cause
of the disease that later led to the death of a greater percentage of
the patients. Manson J. (2009).
It is believed in many quarters that
some of the findings above and many more are the reasons for the recent
step-up in action in the area of high blood pressure management. Hence,
many Nigerians knowing the cost of managing such diseases that tends to
originate from high blood pressure hightened by over-weight, seem to
have woken to the call on “healthy and fitâ€.
This research therefore,
would not have been more timely than this. As a matter of fact, it is
this situation on ground that necessitated this research work.
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
-This
project work is aimed at investigating whether there is a relationship
between weight and blood pressure of patients with high blood pressure.
– To estimate the regression model between the variables based on the sample collected.
-To test the significance of the coefficient of regression.
-To determine the extent and direction of the relationship between the variables; weight and blood pressure.
1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This
project work is designed to cover the statistical model of effects of
weight on thirty (30) patients with high blood pressure in the
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla Enugu State. The
data used is a secondary data collected from the laboratory unit of the
Hospital.
re than normal.
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