Introduction:

Arterial hypertension represents a health concern that, if not identified on time, can lead to serious cardiovascular diseases.

Objective:

To describe medical-occupational evaluation as a practice in the identification of silent arterial hypertension.

Methods:

Descriptive, cross-sectional and retroprospective study with a quantitative approach and nonexperimental design carried out in a population of 1245 workers who requested medical-occupational evaluation services from a healthcare institution. The information was obtained from the clinical evaluations carried out during the first trimester of 2020 and the condensed records of the medical-occupational evaluation software in the last trimester of 2019. Blood pressure measurement followed the parameters established in the guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension. Body mass index followed the guidelines of the World Health Organization. The information analysis was presented in an Excel spreadsheet and the PAST software, using descriptive statistics.

Results:

During the medical-occupational evaluations, 22.26% of the workers with high blood pressure figures were identified: 13.97% was normal high, 5.22% had isolated systolic hypertension, 1.28% had grade I hypertension, 1.44% had grade II hypertension, and 0.32% had grade III hypertension; while 97.9% stated that they did not perceive symptoms related to hypertension.

Conclusions:

Medical-occupational evaluation is an appropriate practice for the identification of silent arterial hypertension, findings that contribute favorably to strengthening early interventions leading to the prevention of cardiovascular complications, in the short, medium or long terms.

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