ABSTRACT

Objective: To evaluate the frequency of microalbuminuria in essential hypertensive patients in a tertiary care hospital.

Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional study.

Place and Duration: Pathology Department, Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital Bannu, from1^st October, 2019 to 30^th September, 2020.

Methodology: In this study Ichroma Fluorescence Immunoassay method was used for the quantitative detection of microalbuminuria in patients with essential hypertension. Inclusion criteria was patients with essential hypertension of both gender with age range of 31-80 years. Exclusion criteria was secondary hypertension, macroalbuminuria or  other associated chronic diseases like Diabetes Mellitus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, dyslipidemia, chronic alcoholism etc. To find out the frequency of microalbuminuria, twenty hours urine sample was used for quantitative estimation in milligram per 24 hours.

Results: A total of 210 patients of essential hypertension were tested for microalbuminuria. Microalbuminuria was found in 17.62% patients of essential hypertension. The age range was from 31-80 years with mean age of 42.55±19.16 years. Amongst these 125 were male and 85 were females, male to female ratio was 1.47:1. The commonest age group was 71-80 years with all 100% patients were suffering from microalbuminuria followed by age group 61-70 years  with 65.21%,  51-60 years with 12.96% and of 41-50 years with 1.78%, whereas none of the patient suffered microalbuminuria in age group of 31-40 years.   

Conclusion: This study show that frequency of microalbuminuria in hypertension increases with increasing age. Therefore it is essential to evaluate hypertensive patients especially of increasing age for this valuable marker to manage target organ damage.

Keywords: Essential Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Microalbuminuria, Cardiovascular, Diseases, Chronic Renal Failure, Mortality.

How to Cite This:

Khattak MS, Shah NUR, Khan MS, Haq lu, Hussain S, Pervez N. Frequency of microalbuminuria in essential hypertension in tertiary care hospital in Southern District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Isra Med J. 2021; 13(4): 261-264.

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