Abstract

POLL PINEDA, Jorge Armando et al. Cardiovascular risk and chronic hypertension in pregnant women. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.2, pp.213-220. ISSN 1029-3019.

An analytical and observational unmatched case-control study including 90 pregnant women assisted in "Camilo Torres Restrepo" and "Municipal" university polyclinics in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from June of 2010 to the same month of 2011, with the objective of determining the degree of causal association between some factors of cardiovascular risk and the chronic hypertensive disease. The group of cases was formed by 30 pregnant women with chronic hypertension and that of controls was formed by 60; the last ones with similar biological characteristics, without hypertension, but with the same exposure degree. It was obtained that the excessive malnutrition, the maintained stress and dyslipidemia were the risk factors showing higher causal association with the chronic hypertension.

Keywords : pregnancy; chronic hypertension; risk factors; primary health care.

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