An important point was high percentage of hypertension cases (including pre-hypertensive) in present study sample that comes to about 23% and that too in a rural set up. From this sample of 239 subjects 55 (23%)was found obese. Prevalence of obesity among rural part of the population is attributed to the changing life style specially the increasing use of machinery in villages. Even now substantial number of farmers use motorcycle to commute between their houses and farms. Prevalence of oral contraceptive pills among women was found 18 % i.e 22 women had used oral contraceptive pills out of 121 women (Table 1).
Age was found a significant (p-value < 0.05) factor in the causation of hypertension. As far as gender is concerned, males kept their predominance (p-value < 0.05) in having hypertension as compared with females. Smoking exhibited non significant (p-value > 0.05) association between it and hypertension. Obesity showed significant (p-value < 0.05) association in causation of hypertension.