Background:

one of the most frequent diseases in patients with COVID-19 is hypertension. It is also the one that occurs in more patients with serious complications and subsequent death. It is also the chronic pathology that is most commonly seen in patients admitted to isolation centers due to contacts of positive cases of COVID-19.

Objective:

to characterize the contact patients of COVID-19 positive cases with hypertension admitted to one of The Cienfuegos University of Medical Sciences isolation centers between January and April 2021.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective study was carried out. The studied universe was 275 patients suspected of having COVID-19 admitted during the study period, all over 18 years of age with a diagnosis of hypertension during the period between January and April 2021, in one of the Cienfuegos Medical Sciences University isolation centers. The variables studied were: age, sex, skin color, origin, evolution time of hypertension, associated pathologies and behavior of blood pressure figures during admission. The results are presented in absolute and relative frequencies, through tables and statistical graphs, using means, medians and percentages.

Results:

those older than 60 years old and female prevailed, as well as those who presented more than 10 years of arterial hypertension evolution and with diabetes mellitus as an associated pathology. During the hospital stay, a smaller number of hypertensive patients presented high blood pressure.

Conclusions:

the most frequent linked comorbidity keeps on being the hypertension to the mortality for the virus in the elders of 60 years and of the female sex.

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