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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

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

Abstract

ORBAY ARANA, María de la Concepción et al. Ocurrencia de enfermedad cerebrovascular en pacientes hipertensos. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2002, vol.18, n.5, pp.322-325. ISSN 0864-2125.

A study was conducted to establish the relationship between essential arterial hypertension and cerebrovascular disease in 19 family physician offices of "Plaza de la Revolución" Polyclinic. Those patientes reevaluated as hypertensive were surveyed. A database for treatment was created in the FOXBASE system, version 5.0. A Chi square test of association among qualitative variables, which are distributed, was applied. The behavior of arterial hypertension was identified according to degrees, age groups, sex, race and the associated risk factors. The relation between the control of arterial hypertension and the appearance of cerebrovascular disease was also established. It was found a 15 % of hypertensive population with predominance of moderate hypertension (36.88 %). The age groups 55-64 (38.29 %) and 45-54 (23.l6 %) were the most affected. It was observed a prevalence of females (55.02 %) and of white individuals (54.04 %). The occurrence of cerebrovascular disease accounted for 4.35 %, corresponding to 71 patients with higher association with severe arterial hypertension. The relation between arterial hypertension and cerebrovascular disease was not statistically significant.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION [diagnosis]; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY.

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