The present study was undertaken to evaluate the current trend in hypertension and its prevalence and awareness within the people of Murshidabad district of West Bengal. Multistage cross-sectional survey was carried out in adults aged between 18 to 67 living in the district. Structured interview schedule was used to interview 2114 study subjects. The study showed mean systolic and diastolic BP were 129.99 (± 15.95) mmHg and 81.50 (± 9.47) mmHg, respectively. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 33.54% and the sex-specific prevalence was 36.25% and 26.38% for males and females respectively. Higher age group subjects specifically males were at high risk. Only 192 (27.08%) of 709 hypertensive subjects were aware of hypertension and was taking medicine and out of which only 79 (41.15%) subjects had BP under control. So from the study it can be concluded that prevalence of prehypertension was very high in the study subjects (50.78%) and around one-third of the subjects were hypertensive. The treatment and control of high blood pressure were also very low.

Keywords: Hypertension; Prevalence of HTN; Murshidabad; BMI.