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Abstract
Objective: It was aimed to evaluate the relationship between anxiety and depression in patients with essential hypertension
Material and Methods: The population of the retrospective study consists of people with a diagnosis of essential hypertension who applied to our polyclinics for any reason in the 6-year period between 2015-2021. In the data form; the total number of applications, number of examinations, gender, diagnosis of anxiety or depression were recorded using the archive scanning method. Data were analysed with IBM SPSS V23
Results: The total number of applications made to our outpatient clinics was 91.580, and the number of single patients who were diagnosed with essential hypertension and had no additional chronic disease was 8.421. It was determined that 50.8% of the hypertension patients were male, 4.1% were diagnosed with anxiety and 2.7% were diagnosed with depression. It was also found that 2.4% of the patients had both anxiety and depression, 1.7% had only anxiety and 0.3% had only depression. A statistically significant difference was found between the distribution of anxiety and depression coexistence groups in hypertension
patients according to gender (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Chronic diseases can cause anxiety and depression, while anxiety and depression can also cause some chronic diseases. Due to the association of anxiety and depression, which we frequently see in the etiology of essential hypertension, treatment will be more effective and faster by continuation of the treatment of both diseases together in cases of comorbidity