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LUGONES BOTELL, MigueL; FERNANDEZ-BRITO RODRIGUEZ, José Emilio  y  RAMIREZ BERMUDEZ, Marieta. Blood hypertension and other factors related to climacteric syndrome in climacteric and menopausal female. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2007, vol.33, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3062.

A case-control study was conducted in four physician’s offices from the Teaching Polyclinics Playain Playa municipality, in coordination with the Center of Research and Reference on Atherosclerosis in Havana (CIRAH).  The study started in each physicians office by collecting data from the classification records of chronic essential hypertensive patients aged 40 to 59 years from February 1st to April 30th, 2006, with the objective of determining the relationship of climacteric syndrome, blood hypertension and other risk factors. For each hypertensive female, a corresponding normotensive female of same age and race was selected. The exclusion criteria were diabetes, renal problems and central nervous system complications so that secondary hypertensive females were not included. The studied variables were age, blood pressure, nutritional assessment, smoking, physical exercises on a regular basis and climacteric syndrome manifestations. It was concluded that hypertensive females were much more prone to pre-obesity, obesity and smoking, with significant differences between both groups and that sedentary lifestyle and climacteric syndrome manifestations were more common in hypertensive women. Blood pressure figures were found to be higher in menopausal women. In spite of the fact that they were classified and treated,   many hypertensive females showed higher blood pressure figures than those of the control group, which constituted a diagnosing contribution of this research work.

Palabras clave : Climacteric syndrome; stress; blood hypertension; risk factors.

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