The Relationship Between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Age on Hypertension in Adults Aged 18-60 Years at the Sangurara Health Center in 2023

Keywords: Hypertension, Body Mass Index (BMI), Age, Obesity, Adults

Hypertension Is a condition in which there is an increase in pulse rate,

especially systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic blood

pressure ≥90 mmHg. hypertension has increased from 650 million

people to 1.28 billion people over the past few years This type of

research is quantitative research with a cross sectional approach

using secondary data and primary data as a reference. The sampling

technique was carried out using Random Sampling. Each data was

described by univariate and bivariate analysis using the SPSS 26.0

program. Based on age, it was found that the sample with the most

cases of hypertension was found in Early Adults, namely as many as

40 people (40%). In the Body Mass Index variable on the incidence of

hypertension, the p value is 0.030 (p  0.05) using the Kruskal-Wallis

test, meaning that there is a significant relationship between Body

Mass Index and the incidence of hypertension. It was found that age

has an insignificant relationship with the incidence of hypertension

with a p value of 0.097 (p  0.05) using the Kruskal - Wallis test There

is a significant relationship between BMI on the occurrence of

hypertension in adult patients 18 - 60 at the Sangurara Palu Health

Center and found the most cases of hypertension in patients with high

BMI There is an insignificant relationship between age and the

occurrence of hypertension in adult patients 18 - 60 at the Sangurara

Palu Health Center and found the most cases of hypertension in

patients with adult age.