About Eight Million Persons are Hypertensive in India

One Large Scale Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same were released shortly.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Disease Hypertension in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

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States	Hypertension	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons Diagnosed for Hypertension (2011)
Chhattisgarh	574	25540196	146601
Madhya Pradesh	687	72597565	498745
Uttar Pradesh	498	199581477	993916
Uttarakhand	1005	10116752	101673
Odisha	1185	41947358	497076
Rajasthan	277	68621012	190080
Bihar	699	103804637	725594
Jharkhund	486	32966238	160216
Assam	1738	31169272	541722
Total of Nine States	658	586344507	3855624

Using population provisional estimates from Census 2011, the number of people diagnosed for Hypertension in these nine states has been estimated as about 4 millions for the year 2011.  This is the minimal (lower bound) of the effected persons by Hypertension in these states of India.  On working backwards, one can say that Hypertension prevalence in these states is about 0.66% on the average.    Minimum number of persons having Hypertension in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Assam states cross 2.26 million and it is about 59% of the total hypertensive people of these nine states.

If one assumes the average prevalence rate of these nine states as the prevalence rate in India, the minimum number of persons effected by this disease in India would be about 8 millions.