TO ASSESS THE AWARENESS AND PREVALANCE OF RISK FACTORS AMONG THE HYPERTENSIVES y ae Aparna. V o,®@ G.Dhivya M.Bhagavathy Preethi A url ureACKNOWLEDGEMENT 0 We extend our sincere thanks to Dr.V. Thomas Chacko, HOD , Dept. of Community Medicine for giving us the opportunity to perfoxm a project, which helped us come to term \ywith status of health amongst the people of Somanur We would also like to thank Dr. Uma Devi¥ medical officer, Semanur PHC and staff off Somanur PHC who offered us all the help we needed while conducting our survey.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Contd...... We would be failing in our duties if we didn’t thank the people of Somanur who co-operated with us throughout our project. Above all we thank Dr. Ravishankar Prof. Dept. @f Community Medicine who has been our guiding force and with extreme patience helped us to carry out our project from A to Z.