Correlation between hypertension and hyperglycemia among young adults in India

Table 1 Bio-social characteristics of study subjects

Determinant	Total	Male (n = 94)		Female (n = 91)		P value1
		n	%	n	%
Place of residence
Urban	119	56	47.1	63	53.9	0.17
Rural	66	38	57.6	28	42.4
Religion
Hindu	164	84	51.2	80	48.8	0.084
Muslim	15	6	40	9	60
Sikh	4	4	100	0	0
Christian	2	0	0	2	100
Type of family
Nuclear	100	36	36	64	64	< 0.0012
Joint	85	58	68.2	27	31.8
Physical activity
Sedentary	69	28	40.6	41	59.4	0.056
Moderate	92	50	54.3	42	45.7
Heavy	24	16	66.7	8	33.3
Smoking habit
Non-smoker	173	82	47.3	91	52.7	0.0012
Smoker	12	12	100	0	0
Alcohol intake
Non-alcoholic	183	92	50.3	91	49.7	0.162
Alcoholic	2	2	100	0	0
Eating habit
Vegetarian	110	52	47.3	58	52.7	0.0132
Mixed	75	42	56	33	44
Diabetic status
Normoglycemic	124	60	48.4	64	51.6	0.347
Pre-diabetic	61	34	55.7	27	44.3
Hypertensive status
Normotensive	165	86	52.1	79	47.9	0.306
Pre-hypertensive	20	8	40	12	60

¹Pearson’s χ² test;

²P value < 0.05 is significant.