Hypertension investigation in a population over 15 years from a doctor´s office in Santiago de Cuba

• Main Authors: Elvia Cremé Lobaina, Julia Tamara Alvarez Cortés, Ana Selva Capdesuñer, Benjamín Deulofeu Betancourt, Anelis Blanco Álvarez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas 2017-04-01
• Series: Medisan
• Subjects: hipertensión arterial, factores de riesgo, morbilidad oculta, atención primaria de salud.
• Online Access: http://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/1274

A cross-sectional descriptive study of 568 patients with 15 years and over that were not diagnosed with hypertension was carried out. They belonged to the doctor´s office 17 in Veguita de Galo, from “Ramón López Peña” polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba, with the purpose of identifying the hidden morbidity of hypertension in that population from December, 2014 to January, 2016. Fifteen patients with hypertension were diagnosed in the case material, most of them grade I, among which the female sex and 35-44 and 55-64 age groups prevailed. Black skin, inadequate diet, physical inactivity and nicotine addiction were the main risk factors detected. It was concluded that the active investigation was useful because it allowed to detect non diagnosed cases up to that moment.