Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics among adult hypertensive patients attending at Tigray teaching hospitals, Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 578)
Variables | Category | Frequency | Percept |
|---|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 288 | 49.8 |
Female | 290 | 50.2 | |
Marital status | Married | 498 | 86.2 |
Single | 35 | 6.1 | |
Widow | 34 | 5.9 | |
Divorced | 11 | 1.9 | |
Religion | Christian orthodox | 539 | 93.3 |
Muslim | 38 | 6.6 | |
Ethnicity | Tigray | 556 | 96.2 |
Afar | 13 | 2.3 | |
Amhara | 9 | 1.5 | |
Residence | Urban | 323 | 55.9 |
Rural | 255 | 44.1 |