Introduction:

High blood pressure is a very frequent disease that, in spite of multiple advances in therapy, continues to be poorly controlled and frequently leads to decompensation requiring hospitalization or emergency services.

Objectives:

To identify the factors associated to treatment failure in hypertensive patients requiring hospital admission, due to disturbances related to blood pressure control.

Method:

There were studied 40 hypertensive patients who were admitted in the Marta Abreu health area, during 2016; the data of clinical histories were taken into account and patients and relatives were interviewed in order to identify the causes that influenced the treatment failure.

Results:

Admissions of males and patients over 60 years predominated. The most frequent risk factors were smoking, diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease, and the main causes of poor control of blood pressure were the inadequate treatments (45%) and non-adherence to treatment (30%). The first three causes of admission were stroke (40%), acute coronary syndrome (27.5%) and hypertensive crisis (7.5%). After correcting the risk stratification, the coincidence with the previous stratification was only 10% and 95% of the patients were at high risk.

Conclusions:

The most frequent causes of admission were of cardiovascular origin. Treatments failed for being inadequate or the lack of patient adherence. Most of them had incorrect stratification, thus, treatments were mostly inadequate and the control was poor.

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