Abstract

CAMPILLO MOTILVA, Rita  and  GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, Adianis. Morbilidad cardiovascular en el adulto mayor. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.6, pp. 540-544. ISSN 1561-3038.

A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in order to define morbidity due to cardiovascular disease in patients aged 60 and over in a family physician’s office of "Dr. Mario Escalona Reguera" Teaching Polyclinic, in Habana del Este municipality, from March to December, 2000. 69 patients were included. 52 of them (75.3 %) had some type of cardiovascular disease and females were the most affected (51.9 %). Arterial hypertension was the most commonly found disease (43 patients for 62.3 %). Most of the individuals were included in the systodiastolic (86.1 %) and in stage II (53.5 %). Electrocardiographic disorders (33 patients for 47.8 %) and valvulopathies (18 patients for 26 %) were other of the diseases detected.

Keywords : CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES [epidemiology]; AGED; MORBIDITY; FAMILY PRACTICE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; HYPERTENSION [epidemiology]; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ARRHYTMIA [epidemiology].