Association Between Hypertension and ABO Blood Groups: A Prospective Study among Students

Background: High blood pressure (BP) is a major public health problem in India and its prevalence israpidly increasing among both urban and rural populations. Age, gender, genetic factors and ethnicity arenon-modifiable risk factors of hypertension. The ABO blood group is inherently heritable, geneticallydetected at time of conception and becomes permanent for whole life. This study intends to find out anyeffect of different blood groups on development of hypertension.Method : A total of 172 subjects were studied between March 2017 to June 2018. Blood pressure of all theparticipants in the study was recorded using mercury sphygmomanometer. The formula, weight in kg wasdivided by height in meter square was used to calculate the BMI of patients and unit is kg/m2. The datacollected was compiled and analysed using chi-square test. SPSS ver. 16 was used for this. P value of <0.005was considered highly significant.Conclusion: Blood group B has the highest tendency to be obese and developed both prehypertension andhypertension. Whereas blood group AB has least chance to develop hypertension and obesity.