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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

Print version ISSN 0864-2125On-line version ISSN 1561-3038

Abstract

RIZO GONZALEZ, Raúl; RIZO RODRIGUEZ, Raúl; VAZQUEZ TRIGO, Manuel  and  ALVAREZ PUIG, Norca. Modificaciones de la tensión arterial en pacientes hipertensos sometidos a un ensayo comunitario. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1998, vol.14, n.1, pp.27-31. ISSN 0864-2125.

A community trial with 45 essential hypertensive patients of both sexes and over 15, who receive attention at the sector No. 22 of the "Julián Grimau" Community Teaching Polyclinic, in Santiago de Cuba, was conducted aimed at helping them to know about their disease and how to control it, t attain changes in their life style, to face the risk factors and to evaluate the impact obtained on the control of blood pressure. To validate the results, Mcnemar's tests and the differences of means for matched observations were used. As a result, statistically siginificane modifications of the readings were obtained

Keywords : HYPERTENSION [prevention & control]; HEALTH PROMOTION; PATIENT EDUCATION [methods]; COMMUNITY HEATLH SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE; ATTITUDES; PRACTICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE.

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