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Low Blood Pressure Syndrome: A Myth Or A Reality? Results Of A Patient's Survey At A Teaching Hospital In Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Bheesham Tara Chand
Low Blood Pressure Syndrome: A Myth Or A Reality? Results Of A Patient's Survey At A Teaching Hospital In Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Bheesham Tara Chand
Department of Family Medicine
Objective: To study patient’s knowledge, perceptions attitude and practice with regard to low blood pressure.
Design: A Questionnaire-based survey.
Settings: Family Practice Center, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, in June 2004.
Main outcome measures: Low blood pressure is a disease, causes and treatment of low blood pressure, patient ever suffered from low blood pressure, low blood pressure can be diagnosed with BP apparatus, without apparatus and stress can cause low blood pressure.
Results: A 110 patients were interviewed. Majority of the subjects were educated young married men, well placed socio-economically. A majority (73%) of the …