dc.description.abstract | Non communicable disease is the greatest cause of death in indonesia one of them is
hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension in the world very high so also
occurring in indonesia. Geographic factors is one of the risk factors of hypertension.
Population of coastal areas have a greater risk of hypertension than the population
of mountains. It became reason the researchers conduct research in village gili
ketapang district probolinggo, because it is a coastal area is in form of an
island. This research is analyze the risk factors of hypertension in yhe population
ofcoastal areas in the Gili Ketapang villagge. This research is non reactive research
or unobstrusive measures, because the data used is in form of data secondary.
Analysis of data conducted include analysis univariat, bivariat, and multivariate with
α = 0.05. Based on the research known that incident of hypertension in gili ketapang
village probolinggo regency is 69,7 %. The age has the largest percentage is ≥ 66
years (35,8%), most of the reponden have total cholesterol levels with normal
criteria (73,1 %), did not suffer from diabetes mellitus (87.6%), not exercising (94.5
%), no smoking (93%), there are not obese (76,6%), and the majority of reponden
often consume salty foods (90%). The risk factor associated with an occurrence of
hypertension on this research are age ( p-value 0,000 ) and consumption of salty
foods ( p-value 0,003 ). While risk factors the most dominant associated with the
incident of hypertension is age with the odd ratio is 1,622. | en_US |