BLOOD PRESSURE

SURVEY OF SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS

Abstract

We investigated Blood Pressure of asymptomatic senior sedentary civil servants. Aims & Objectives:1-To
find out Blood Pressure trends in the normal working people.2- To offer antihypertensive treatment to
hypertensive people. Study Design: A prospective study, descriptive in design. Subjects: 120 senior civil
servants that have been in job for 25 or more years were included in this trial. Setting: Garden Clinic,
Garden town, Lahore. Period: January February March 2001. Results: There were total 120 patients in this
study. There were 39(32.5%) hypertensive patients, out of these, 20(51.2%) were diagnosed and put on
treatment but only 16(41.02%) had their BP controlled and 4(10.25%) had uncontrolled BP on treatment.
19(48.71%) patients out of 39 were not diagnosed. In this way 23(58.97%) patients were effectively
untreated .,only 16(41.02%) patients were adequately treated. Conclusion: Hypertension in our population
is undiagnosed and untreated, mostly. Much wider and extensive network of health services is needed to
detect and treat these patients earlier to halt their progression to complications which require more expensive
treatment and have poor prognosis.