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ROBAINA AGUIRRE, Cristina; MARTINEZ AGUILERA, Rafaela; ROBAINA AGUIRRE, Fermín  e  PLUNKET ROWE, Deisy. Riesgo cardiovascular en trabajadores de la salud. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1999, vol.15, n.2, pp. 115-122. ISSN 1561-3038.

A cross-sectional study was carried out know the behavior of the cardiovascular diseases that caused temporary disability at the"Julio Trigo López" Hospital from 1994 to 1996. Our main objective was to identify some risk factors that influenced on the appearance of these disorcers among health workers, having into account variables such as person, and working place or occupation. During the analyzed period the cardiovascular diseases represented a health problem in this hospital with a rate of 10.64 x 100 workers. Arterial hypertension was in the first place with a rate of 6.31 x 100 workers followed not very close by ischaemic heart diseases with 2.4 x 100 workers. Doctors, administrative workers and nurses were the most affected. These diseases were more frequent in men than in women with rates of 11.53 and 10.07, respectively 47.94 % of these individuals were black. Smoking and stress were some of the factors that could be involved in our results, since more than 55 % of the patients were smokers and many of them (76.66 %) were under the working stress characteristic of doctors and nurses at clinical and surgical hospitals

Palavras-chave : CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES [epidemiology]; RISK FACTORS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSES.

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