Abstract

Objectives: Hypertension is one of mortality causing factor among the non-communicable diseases, therefore, this study aims to determine serum level pattern of Na+ and K+ between male and female hypertensive participants. Another objective of this study is to find the association of serum Na+ or K+ with BMI in hypertensive people, and association between serum Na+ and K+ as well. Methods: For this study, hypertensive participants with history of no any other diseases were randomly selected from the hospital of Lalitpur, Nepal. Serum sodium, potassium were estimated through their fasting serum samples and BMI of the participants were calculated from their weight and height measurements. Results: Among 100 hypertensive participants, 58% were male and 42% were female, in which 78% participants are within the normal range of BMI. In this study, both serum Na+ and K+ levels were found significantly higher in female than male ( p˂0.05). Furthermore, it was found that serum Na + and K+ had a weak negative noteworthy correlation (r: -0.227, p˂0.05), no relation between serum Na+ and BMI (r: 0.045), and serum K+ and BMI had slightly weak positive relation (r: 0.143). Conclusion: Female hypertensive participants had noticeably higher serum Na+ and K+ compare to male participants. Additionally, t here was no association between Na+ or K+ with BMI but had a weak negative association between serum Na+ and K+.