Abstract

MARTINEZ CABRERA, Mery  and  GORT HERNANDEZ, Magaly. Risk factors in hypertensive patients at Patacamaya Hospital, La Paz. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.5, pp. 938-947. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction: hypertension is one of the most important medical problems of contemporary medicine, being influenced by multiple risk factors. Objective: to determine the presence of risk factors en hypertensive patients attending the internal medicine office  at Patacamaya Hospital, La Paz, Bolivia Republic during 2014. Material and method: this is a descriptive cross-sectional research. The universe was comprised of 7739 adult patients (18 years and older) attending internal medicine for any health reasons. The sample comprised 270 patients with a diagnosis of hypertension. The variables studied were: age, sex and risk factors. Summary measures for qualitative data were used. Results: the prevalence of hypertension in this study was 3.4%, those over 60 years and male were the most affected; inadequate eating habits (70.0%), toxic habits (52.9%) and erythrocytosis occurred more frequently. Having these risk factors was highly significant as a predisposing element to develop high blood pressure, increasing by 2.76 times its presence. Conclusions: there was a direct relationship between the presence of risk factors and hypertension in the studied series.

Keywords : Hypertension; Risk factors.

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