Abstract

ROQUE ALVAREZ, Odalys et al. Clinical epidemiological characterization of the hypertensive aged in the Elderly Home. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.4, pp. 117-126. ISSN 1561-3194.

Hypertension is the most extended cardiovascular disease all over the World; existing more than thousand millions of hypertensive people in the World. With the purpose of deepening in the knowledge of the clinical-epidemiological hypertension in the elderly a descriptive, cross-sectional and analytic research was carried out. The universe of the study was comprised of 130 aged, out of them 77 hypertensive. Data were collected by means of the individual clinical histories, familial health and a survey designed by the author; obtaining patient's general data, and variables to the study: age, sex, race, risk factors, and influence in target organs. The sample chosen took three conglomerates, the Houses of the Elderly in Pinar del Rio, San Juan y Martinez and Consolacion del Sur. Reviewing qualitative data in absolute and relative frequencies. Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, logistic regressions and non-parametric tests were made. Showing that regardless of age; hypertension can or cannot be present at least in the sample chosen, prevailing female sex. Observing that hypertension prevailed in black race, and that only vascular brain damage and the color of the skin had association. The most common risk factors were smoking and dyslipemia.

Keywords : Elderly; hypertension; risk factors.

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