a comparative study on magnitude of depression in patients with hypertension and non-hypertensive controls.

aim and backgruond: blood pressure  , one of the most important public health problem in the world is the main risk factors for heart disease .depression is the common comorbod psychiatric disorder among patient with medicin  conditions .this aim was to    compared   depression between   patients with hypertension and  normal  people . methods and materials: in the case-control ,143 consecative  patients with hypertension were  selected regarding  inclusing  and exclusing  criteria and they were  matched with  a normal group  selected  from  their family .data was collected demographic questionnaire and beck depression scale  and  then  data  was analyised  by mann-whitney test and chi-square.   results: 4/59% of patients had hypertension and 5/33% non-suffering people were suffering from mild to severe degrees of depression. findings chi-square  analysis was significant difference   p<0/001) between the two groups indicated. mann-whitney test showed significant differences in frequency of depression at three levels: mild, moderate and severe there. p<0/001)  . between disease duration and severity of hypertension in patients with depression had a direct significant relationship (p <0/001).   conclusion: depressive symptoms in patients with higher blood pressure of population is suffering. and the results seem to psychiatric counseling for depression screening in patients with hypertension should be considered more seriously.