Hipertensão arterial como fator de risco para doenças ateroscleróticas

• Autor(a) principal: Chiconi de Picoli, Paula Monique
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Trovatti, Eliane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar
• Texto Completo: http://revistarebram.com/index.php/revistauniara/article/view/1391
• topic: hipertensão arterial; aterosclerose.; infarto agudo do miocárdio; acidente vascular cerebral isquêmico; doença arterial periférica

ABSTRACT Hypertension is a chronic, slowly evolving, silent disease. The pathology generates a dysfunction in arterial endothelial tissue, causing significant physiological and morphological changes in the vascular system. Hypertension is considered one of the main risk factors for the development of atherosclerotic diseases such as acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and peripheral arterial disease, pathologies with high mortality rates and sequelae. The aim of this work was to identify the influence of hypertension on the development of these three atherosclerotic pathologies. Data analysis was performed using the chi-square method. The study included 137,211 patients with atherosclerotic disease, with a history of hypertension or not. Statistical analysis indicated that 65.8% of patients with ischemic stroke, 60.1% with acute myocardial infarction, and 57.7% with peripheral arterial disease had a history of hypertension. The work evidenced arterial hypertension as an important predictor risk factor for the development of atherosclerotic diseases, present in more than half of the analyzed patients. The results suggest that patients with arterial hypertension would have a higher propensity for the development of ischemic stroke.   Keywords hypertension. atherosclerosis. acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke. peripheral arterial disease.