Abstract

CASTENANOS ARIAS, José Adolfo; NERIN LA ROSA, Rafael  and  CUBERO MENENDEZ, Osmandy. Prevalencia de la hipertensión arterial en una comunidad del municipio Cárdenas. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.2, pp. 138-143. ISSN 1561-3038.

A study on arterial hypertension was carried out using a simple random sample of 208 patients over 15 years of age from a community of the Cardenas municipality, Matanzas province, during the months from January 1995 through February of 1996. Different variables were analyzed such as sex, age, family antecedents of hypertension, behavior of systolic and diastolic arterial tension according to different age groups, use of hypertension treatment and arterial hypertension control, as well as the most important electrocardiographic findings in hypertension patients. It was found a 29.8 % of prevalence and a 12.9 % of incidence. There were no marked differences in hypertension patients of both sexes, but there was an increase of differences when analyzing the age factor, being controlled only the 8.5 % of the cases.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION [epidemiology]; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES.

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