Patients with hypertensive disease studied because of possible sub-clinical damage

Abstract

Introduction: arterial hypertension is one of the most frequent diseases nowadays. The chronicity of this condition may cause damage to different organs.Objective: to describe hypertensive patients studied in order to find sub-clinical damage, attended to at “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” Hospital from Camagüey, from October 2012 to July 2014.Method: a descriptive, longitudinal and prospective research was carried out with a sample of 87 patients diagnosed with essential hypertension without evident target organ damage. The clinical method was used. The data were processed according to descriptive statistics, using measures of central tendency, of dispersion and of proportion, according to the type of variable.Results: arterial hypertension was more frequent in patients older than 70 years of age and in the male sex. The associated cardiovascular risk factors that prevailed were sedentary lifestyle and dyslipidemia. Grade I was the most frequent initial hypertensive grade, as well as more than 5 years of progress of the hypertensive condition. The basic medical treatments mostly used were diuretics and ACEI. There was a prevalence of the presence of organic damage in the cardiovascular system and in the retina.Conclusion: the research detected the presence of sub-clinical target organ damage in most of the studied hypertensive patients.

Keywords

• hypertension
• hypertension/complications