Risk Factors of Hypertension in the Elderly

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.048How to use a DOI?

Keywords

family history, history of hypertension, smoking, elderly

Abstract

Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that gets the nickname “The Silent Killer”, because of its characteristics that cause death without any previous symptoms. The number of elderly population in Indonesia according to 2016 Susenas data is 22.4 million people or 8.69% of the population, and hypertension is the most common disease (57.6%). Many factors can cause hypertension including family history, history of previous hypertension, and smoking. The purpose of this study was to analyze the risk factors for hypertension in the elderly in Tambaksogra Village, Sumbang District, Banyumas Regency. This type of research is analytic descriptive research with a retrospective approach. The population in this study were all the elderly who had hypertension recorded from January to July 2019 totaling 217 respondents. The sampling technique used is total sampling. The results of this study were processed using the Chi Square test (table 2x2). The results of this study found that there was a relationship between family history and hypertension history prior to hypertension in the elderly with p values of each p value alpha (0,700> 0.05).

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wilis Sukmaningtyas
AU  - Tin Utami
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - Risk Factors of Hypertension in the Elderly
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 215
EP  - 221
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.048
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.048
ID  - Sukmaningtyas2020
ER  -