Introduction: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide and is one of the most important reasons to visit physician. In today‘s life people aims at a modern life style which consumes more time for economic growth of life and less time for self health care, this situation leads to several health problem like cardiovascular disease.14 Methods: To gather data for the interview method, a non-experimental survey research approach was used. 100 samples were chosen using a purposeful sampling strategy. The study was carried out at the IMS& SUM Hospital in BBSR, Odisha. ABCD risk questionnaire was used to assess a knowledge & perception of hypertensive clients coming to medicine OPD in the period of data collection. Results: The study's conclusions showed that the mean level of knowledge of hypertensive client that is 47.5 with p value 0.023693 which is extremely significant at< 0.05 level of significant. The result of statistical analysis shows that there was significant association between knowledge & perception regarding cardiovascular disease with occupation, area of living, family type, duration of hypertension, family history, and duration of treatment at < 0.05 level of significant. Conclusion: The study was concluded that the hypertension clients had good level of knowledge on risk of cardiovascular disease & they have the good perception regarding risk of cardiovascular disease.
Knowledge, Perception, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, risk factor, hypertensive client
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