Abstract

RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, Nadienka et al. Prevalence of hypertension and some risk factors in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.4, pp.53-64. ISSN 1561-3194.

Background: The cardiovascular diseases constitutes the main one of cause of mortality in patient in hemodialysis and the main one predict is the hypertension still before that the dislipemia and the consumption of tobacco. Objective: Describe the prevalence and risk factors of hypertension among patients on chronic hemodialysis. Methods: A transversal descriptive study was carried out in 22 patients with chronic kidney diseases in the nephrological service of Augusto Cesar Sandino Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Rio City, since June to December, 2009. Variables such as: age, etiology of the chronic renal failure, time elapsed in hemodialysis were included in the study. Information was gathered through surveys and from the morbimortality book of the nephrology unit. The statistical analysis of frequency distribution was used for each category of variables. The independence test was also used to test the association of variable null hypothesis. The level of significance was set at á = 0.05. Results: The age average went of 53 years with a half prior time in hemodialysis of 57 months. Among the main causes by which they arrived at the processing purifier the patient were the done not relate to the diabetes mellitus in the 86, 4 %. In 14 patients (63, 6%) history was collected of hypertension prediálisis and in hemodialysis. The analysis multivariado showed that the hypertension was associated with the age advanced, the average time of life in hypertension and the presence of diabetes mellitus. Conclusions: The hypertension is highly prevalence among patient in hypertension chronic and this associate to the hipervolemia, the hypertension and the diabetes mellitus.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; RISK FACTORS.

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