Características demográficas e incidência de fatores de risco associados à Hipertensão Arterial na 17ª SAFE em Araraquara-SP

• Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Any Carolina Ióca [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Alves, Gabrielle Cunha [UNESP], Furlan, Letícia Cristina [UNESP], Almeida, Adelia Emília de [UNESP], Marin, Marcelo Tadeu [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://200.145.6.205/index.php/congressoextensao/8congressoextensao/paper/view/941; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/142368
• topic: Arterial blood pressure; Risk factors; Pharmaceutical care; Pressão sanguínea arterial; Fatores de risco; Atenção farmacêutica

Hypertension is a multifactorial clinical condition characterized by chronic high levels of arterial blood pressure (BP). It has extensive prevalence, high risk of mortality and morbidity and need for constant control and monitoring for therapeutic success. Based on this, students of pharmacy at UNESP structured an event in order to advise the population of the city of Araraquara about the risk factors and measure the people’s BP. This study aimed to identify the demographic characteristics and the incidence of risk factors for hypertension in the assisted population. Our data indicate that there are large numbers of individuals with high BP mainly in people diagnosed with hypertension, suggesting possible treatment failure. Moreover, men seem to have the BP less controlled than women and smoking and family history have been associated to the diagnosis of hypertension. Also, the frequent use of alcohol was correlated with high BP both in persons already diagnosed with hypertension, as undiagnosed.