According WHO data April 2011 Hypertension Deaths in Sudan reached 12,281 of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate is 67.67 per 100,000 of population and ranks Sudan#17 in the world.

Objective: aimed to detect the relation between hypertension and certain demographic data in Sudanese hypertensive patients.

Method: Data was collected from222 hypertensive patients via structured questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS.

Results: males are more than females(males 66.2%).The most affected age group was 41–60(61.1%). The most affected geographical area North(62.3%) followed by the East(23.9%), and the least affected region was found to be the South(6.6 %). Married subjects were more than singles(89.2%)of the total study population, study doesn’t denote whether the diagnosis of hypertension was made before or after marriage. 93.2%of the study sample lived with their families. The study revealed that only 71.6%of the study sample had good compliance to treatment, patients with negative family history (who constituted 28.4%)showed better compliance to treatment and scheduled follow up visits(78.04%of the patients with negative family history) than those with positive family history where 67.8% of them showed better compliance. The study shows that married patients showed better levels of compliance 73.13% than single patients. patients originating from the north showed better compliance (70.45%) than those living in other regions of the Sudan. Disregard to origin most patients lived in desert environments 97.67% of those originating from the North and (66.66%)of these originating from the East).

Conclusion: Patients originating from the East showed lower compliance and therefore must be targeted for health to increase awareness