Factores de riesgo en la hipertensión arterial Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso

Abstract

Hypertension should be considered as a risk factor (modifiable) for development of cardio vascular diseases, cerebrovascular and kidney with high rates of disability and death. Genetic risk factors, environmental, salt intake, body weight, contraceptive use, alcohol, psychosocial factors, occupational and interaction of these that act synergistically, enhancing factors are reviewed. The glucose intolerance and electrocardiogram abnormalities especially left ventricular hypertrophy. The development of society today has determined significant changes in the epidemiological profiles of man, in earlier decades myocardial hypertension, diabetes were typical of a relevant social group executive levels pathologies, but at present this problem is affected other sectors of the population in line with the conditions of life, so it has been decided to conduct an epidemiological study to determine what the risk factors are high blood pressure and propose strategies to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of this disease. In Ecuador, the Ministry of Health undertook the first survey in 1978, the population of the city of Quito with 575,000 inhabitants a prevalence of hypertension of 21.56 equivalent of 74 865 hypertensive subjects. Very serious problem if we consider that we are not in industrialized countries where the disease is most often hypertensive. For the above we believe are important to analyze the most relevant risk factors that influence the incidence and persistence of hypertension Traductor de Google para empresas:Google Translator ToolkitTraductor de sitios webGlobal Market F