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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="journal_submission_guidelines">https://www.pimr.org.in/instructions.php</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Perspectives in Medical Research</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2348-229X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">2348-1447</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">7</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47799/pimr.1203.07</article-id>
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          <subject>Original Article</subject>
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        <article-title id="article-title-5c03e3667c77446aab8e9c965bdc1eb2">Prevalence and Determinants of Hypertension and Obesity: A Rural-Urban Comparative Study in Telangana, India</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="name-b4c7153f938e40468bf179dd947c3e5c">
            <surname>Murali</surname>
            <given-names>L</given-names>
          </name>
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          <name id="name-db7b2abf3fbc487caf385ad2beb20814">
            <surname>Bhavani</surname>
            <given-names>R</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>bhavaniirt@gmail.com</email>
          <xref id="x-bde47221f7fc" rid="a-3bee867dc714" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="name-fccc3e2ddc57454b919537f819d1164b">
            <surname>Y</surname>
            <given-names>Kavitha</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref id="x-a0bbbb8ec5c7" rid="a-a23bd82bcce9" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="name-7d3b304b6547461eb2329e1a6bccfddc">
            <surname>Shoukath Ali</surname>
            <given-names>Fathima</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref id="x-d3c22fffe76e" rid="a-61b471e03b60" ref-type="aff">4</xref>
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        <aff id="a-a62caac168e7">
          <institution>Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Kakatiya Medical College</institution>
          <addr-line>Warangal, Telangana</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-3bee867dc714">
          <institution>Senior Resident, Department of Community Medicine, Kakatiya Medical College</institution>
          <addr-line>Warangal, Telangana</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-a23bd82bcce9">
          <institution>Associate Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Government Medical College Mahbubabad</institution>
          <addr-line>Telangana</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-61b471e03b60">
          <institution>Junior Resident, Department of Community Medicine, Kakatiya Medical College</institution>
          <addr-line>Warangal, Telangana</addr-line>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>38</fpage>
      <lpage>44</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>22</day>
          <month>6</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>8</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>7</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>©2023 (Murali L) et al. This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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      <abstract id="abstract-abstract-title-388b5ddd6c784c7ca7aba4921358fedc">
        <title id="abstract-title-388b5ddd6c784c7ca7aba4921358fedc">Abstract</title>
        <p id="paragraph-9fcc192c90554f2887abe882b4e2a52b"><bold id="s-297047a4b3bf">Introduction</bold>: Non-communicable diseases (NCD) causes 74% of all deaths occurring worldwide. It is common among all age groups. The main behavioural risk factors included inadequate physical activity, tobacco usage, excessive consumption of alcohol and unhealthy diet. This study aimed for the comparison of risk factors for NCD in rural and urban areas and to determine the factors associated with hypertension and obesity. <bold id="s-722ed79097c4">Methodology</bold>: This cross sectional study was done in the Rural and Urban field practice area of KMC. 300 adults (150 rural and 150 urban) were chosen through systematic sampling technique. WHO Steps questionnaire was used for the data collection. The data collected was analysed using SPSS. Chi square test was used as the statistical tests of significance. <bold id="s-d2cd51e80402">Results</bold>: The proportion of current tobacco users were 24.7% and 16% and current alcohol users were 56% and 46% in rural and urban respectively. Diet were inadequate and poor in both. Physical inactivity was 90.7% in urban, 52% in rural. Prevalence of Hypertension was 14% and 6%, obesity was 37.3% and 48.7% in rural and urban respectively. Diet was significantly associated with Hypertension and alcohol consumption was significantly associated with obesity in both. <bold id="s-7a475cda97d4">Conclusions</bold>: Both the rural and urban areas had high prevalence of risk factors. Smoking, alcohol consumption and hypertension were higher in rural area whereas physically inactivity and obesity were higher in urban area. Hence appropriate health education regarding NCDs and their risk factors are mandatory.</p>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Non Communicable Diseases</kwd>
        <kwd>Risk factors</kwd>
        <kwd>Rural</kwd>
        <kwd>Urban</kwd>
        <kwd>Adults</kwd>
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      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement>None</funding-statement>
      </funding-group>
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