Faktor-Faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Tekanan Darah Lansia di Kabupaten Klaten

Abstract

Hypertension in the elderly is common. High blood pressure can affect the health of older adults. The study aims to analyze the relationship between food consumption patterns, nutritional status, insomnia, and blood pressure in the elderly and the differences between older men and older women based on the variables studied. The cross-sectional study was conducted on 96 elderly subjects with a mean age of men aged 69.6±5.7 years and women aged 66.4±5.4 years.  Data collection used anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, and food consumption pattern interviews. The majority of blood pressure in the elderly is stage I hypertension in elderly men with a rate of 29.2% and stage II hypertension in elderly women with a rate of 41.7%. Most elderly men and women have normal nutritional status. Sugar, sodium, and fat intake in the elderly tend to be normal. Meanwhile, macronutrient and micronutrient adequacy levels tend to be lower than recommended dietary allowances. The results of the difference test showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups of men and women in the variables of education level and sugar consumption of the subjects (p<0.05). In addition, the study showed that there is some correlation between nutritional status (body mass index/BMI) (r=0.249, p=0.015), level of energy adequacy (r=-0.411, p=0.000), protein (r=-0.335, p=0.000), carbohydrate (r=-0.336, p=0.000), calcium (r=-0.328, p=0.001), iron (r=-0.290, p=0.004), potassium (r=-0.225, p=0.027) and daily sugar intake (r=-0.305, p=0,003) with blood pressure.