TY - JOUR AU - Iqbal, Muhammad Asif AU - Khalil, Ayesha AU - Subhan, Saad AU - Khan, Marina AU - Gul, Adnan PY - 2021/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - COMPARISON OF HYPERTENSION, ITS CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE OF ANTI-HYPERTENSIVES AMONG DEPRESSED AND NON-DEPRESSED PATIENTS JF - Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute JA - J Postgrad Med Inst VL - 35 IS - 2 SE - Original Article DO - 10.54079/jpmi.35.2.2855 UR - https://www.jpmi.org.pk/index.php/jpmi/article/view/2855 SP - 96-9 AB - <p> </p><p><strong>Objective:</strong> To compare frequency of hypertension, control of blood pressure and compliance to anti-hypertensives among depressed versus non-depressed patients.</p><p><strong>Methodology:</strong> This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Cardiology Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. The patients were interviewed for the diagnosis of depression and compliance to anti-hypertensives. PHQ 9 questionnaire was used to diagnose depression among study patients. Total patients were 1026 divided into two groups, group A were 634 patients and group B were 392 patients. Group A were patients having moderate, moderately severe and severe depression and Group B patients were having no depression and mild depression. The two groups were compared for the frequency of hypertension, and compliance to drugs using Morisky medi­cation adherence scale. SPSS v.20.0 was used to analyze the data.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The mean age of the sample was 55.86±11.37 years with male to female ration of 1.5:1. Hypertension was present in 69.24% of patients in group A and 60.46% group B (p=0.006). Mean SBP was 131.17+24.7 mmHg in depressed patients and 124.20+19.7 mmHg in non-depressed (p=0.000). Similarly mean DBP was 82.06+13.3 mmHg in depressed and 78.99+12.1 mmHg in non-depressed patients (p=0.004). 335/392 non-depressed patients were compliant to medication as compared to 512/634 depressed patients (p=0.052).</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Hypertension was found to be more prevalent among depressed patients. In compliance to anti-hy­pertensives, depressed patients had lesser compliance than the patients of the other group.</p> ER -