Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular (Mar 2014)
Control of arterial hypertension in the "10 de Octubre Project"
Abstract
1000 patients classified as hypertensives from the 5 health areas of the "10 de Octubre" municipality, in the capital, were evaluated with the aim of validating the quality of medical care affered by their family physicians in 1998. These patients were randomly selected at each physician office, where the were surveyed and examined. Some of them were visited at home. 68 % were fenales and nost of them were over 45. Blood pressure increased with age in both sexas. Non-phatmacological treatment was indicated to 82.9 % of these patients. 95 % of them were taking antihypertensive drugs and 68.8 % touk tehm every day. The most used group of drugs was that of calcium antagonist, whereas only 22.8 % took betablockers. It was finally found that just 40.8 % of the total of hypertensive patients were controlled. It was derived from the study that a considerable number of our hypertensives are not well treated as regards this chronic disease and that, as a result, the percentage of patient under control in this area is low.
