Association Between Lifestyle with Hypertension in Communities in Healthy at Working Area of Merdeka Health Center, Palembang City

摘要

The case of hypertension is a problem that is often not realized by the public, this disease usually begins to be detected when complications begin with other diseases. Many factors affect the emergence of this case, one of them is an unhealthy lifestyle. Unhealthy lifestyle includes smoking habit, coffee consumption and consumption of salty foods. Poor control of this disease can have serious consequences for each individual, therefore, this study aims to analyze the relationship between lifestyle and the incidence of hypertension in the working area of the independent health center in Palembang. This research method was carried out by cross sectional method, sample selection with purposive sampling with a total sample of 82 respondents by collecting data from questionnaires and then univariate and bivariate analysis. Based on the results of the study showed that there was a significant relationship between smoking habits and the incidence of hypetension (p = 0.037) and there was no significant relationship between coffee consumption and consumption of salty foods. Smoking has an important role in the incidence of hypertension so that reducing cigarette consumption can help reduce the incidence of hypertension so that complications do not occur with other diseases.