Relación entre depresión con diabetes e hipertensión arterial en pacientes que asisten al dispensario médico y centro de servicio social del IESS 2011

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Hypertension, diabetes and depression represent pathologies of increasing incidence in the general population, but have particular relevance in the elderly, causing thousands of deaths each year and reduce the healthy years by not negligible, the study prevalence in the older population is also essential is necessary to establish the association between these two pathologies.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and the relationship of depression in patients suffering from essential hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

METHODOLOGY: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in a population of 553 patients from the Social Services for the elderly people of the IESS and in the IESS medical center. Previously clinic. Informed consent we applied a structured questionnaire which consisted affiliation data and associated pathologies, the diagnosis of depression was established by the test scores obtained by the validity of Beck then proceeded to tabulate data for submission to support analysis statistical package

RESULTS: We studied the total of the established population, with an average Zf 67 years old with an standard deviation of 10.62 years, female sex was the most prevalent, the prevalence of diabetes was 47.7%, 37.4% for hypertension and in 14.8% of the population converged both disorders, the prevalence of depression was 81.4%, the moderate degree was the most prevalent. The mean disease duration was 10.01years for hypertension and diabetes 9.67 years, 33.5% of the population had a history of depression. No differences were not statistically significant risk for any variable.

CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of depression in patients with hypertension and diabetes is high; there is no association between these variables