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Table 4 Final patient diagnosis

From: Profile of patients with hypertensive urgency and emergency presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania

 

Overall

Emergency

Urgency

N = 203

N = 138

N = 65

Hypertension

76 (37.4%)

56 (40.6%)

20 (30.8%)

Cerebral Vascular Accident

63 (31.0%)

63 (45.7%)

0

Renal failure

25 (12.3%)

21 (15.2%)

4 6.2%)

Hypertensive emergency

20 (9.9%)

20 (14.5%)

0

Diabetic Mellitus

20 (9.9%)

16 (11.6%)

4 (6.2%)

Heart failure

15 (7.4%)

11 (8.0%)

4 (6.2%)

Pulmonary oedema

11 (5.4%)

11 (8.0%)

0

Hypertensive urgency

9 (4.4%)

6 (4.3%)

3 (4.6%)

Myocardia Ischemia

6 (3.0%)

6 (4.3%)

0