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Relationship Between Weight And Blood Pressure Of Patients With High Blood Pressure
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Statistics have it that between the years 2000 and 2008, there has been
about forty 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.
1.4 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
The limitations
of the project work is mostly the difficulties encountered during data
collection some of these difficulties are as follows:-
-The cost of getting project materials, data and the time constrained in carrying out the project work.
-The unwillingness of the offices incharge, to release information and data as expected.
-The data used are secondary data and as such, some errors (generated errors) might have been committed.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
project work will help individuals to predict their blood pressure
given their weight and will equally help them to know what to do when
their weight is becoming too much.
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
-Weight: This is how heavy somebody or something is which can be measured in, for example kilograms or pounds.
-Height: This is the measurement of how tall a person or thing is.
-High blood pressure: This occurs when one’s blood move through the arteries at a higher pressure than normal.
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