SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.16 número2Factores familiares de riesgo en el intento suicidaCaracterísticas clínicas de la diabetes mellitus en un área de salud índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

versión impresa ISSN 0864-2125versión On-line ISSN 1561-3038

Resumen

CASTENANOS ARIAS, José Adolfo; NERIN LA ROSA, Rafael  y  CUBERO MENENDEZ, Osmandy. Prevalencia de la hipertensión arterial en una comunidad del municipio Cárdenas. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.2, pp.138-143. ISSN 0864-2125.

A study on arterial hypertension was carried out using a simple random sample of 208 patients over 15 years of age from a community of the Cardenas municipality, Matanzas province, during the months from January 1995 through February of 1996. Different variables were analyzed such as sex, age, family antecedents of hypertension, behavior of systolic and diastolic arterial tension according to different age groups, use of hypertension treatment and arterial hypertension control, as well as the most important electrocardiographic findings in hypertension patients. It was found a 29.8 % of prevalence and a 12.9 % of incidence. There were no marked differences in hypertension patients of both sexes, but there was an increase of differences when analyzing the age factor, being controlled only the 8.5 % of the cases.

Palabras clave : HYPERTENSION [epidemiology]; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo el contenido de esta revista, excepto dónde está identificado, está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons