Hubungan Merokok dengan Hipertensi di Desa Sei Baharu Hamparan Perak

Abstract

Smoking is one of the causes of hypertension. Chemical substances in a cigarette have bad impact Oil the body and can disturb the functional system of various human body organs. The objective of the research is to find out the correlation between smoking and hypertension. The research uses quantitative analytic method with cross-sectional design in order to find out whether there is the correlation between one variable and the other ones. The samples are 106 pre­ elderly people and the elderly who have met the inclusion criteria, taken by using simple random sampling technique. The data are analyzed by using chi-square test. The result of the research shows that there is the correlation between smoking and hypertension (p-value = 0.006). The conclusion is that there is the correlation between smoking and hypertension at Sei Baharu Village, Hamparan Perak. It is recommended that the pre-elderly and the elderly often participate in Posyandu (Integrated Service Post) activities in order to check their health and to decrease consuming cigarettes and always keep healthy.