Abstract

Objective: According to reports in Afghanistan, hypertension has been widely reported in COVID-19 among all ages. To the best of our knowledge, there if no study revealed the association of hypertension with COVID 19 among the adult population in Kabul, Afghanistan. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between hypertension and the risk of COVID 19 in Kabul.

Method: Quantitative descriptive research design has been used to analyze the primary data collected from the hospital. The data has been collected from 98 hospitalized patients from two government and private hospitals (Adie Medical Teaching Complex (AMTI) and Afghan japan is a government hospital). The formal letters have been written to both ADEI medical complex (AMTI) and Afghan japan hospital to collect data.

Result: The study population consisted of 98 adult hypertension patients with COVID-19 infections. Our analysis demonstrated that in these 98 hospitalized patients 65 (65.31%) were male and 33 (34.69%) were females. Our research revealed that 29.6% of participants had primary hypertension. The 66.3% and 4.1% of the population had secondary and pro hypertension. The table shows that (96.9%) of patients had a cough and only (3.1%) didn’t have a cough while having COVID-19 and hypertension.

Conclusion: Hypertension with COVID-19 was significantly and more likely to have essential comorbidities and mortality in old ages. it is recommended to COVID-19 old patients stay normal not to worry about the infection, which they have their blood pressure level stay normal.

Keywords: COVID-19; Risk of hypertension; Afghan participants; A quantitative descriptive research