Prevalencia de hemorragia intracerebral en pacientes hipertensos mayores de 60 años en el Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil los Ceibos en el periodo 2019-2020.

Abstract

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) are a health problem that affects surprisingly and is currently the third cause of death and the first cause of disability worldwide. Intracerebral hemorrhage is closely related to arterial hypertension (HT), which is known as a chronic pathology and, in turn, the main risk factorfor its production. The lack of blood pressure control and inadequate treatment, especially in older adults, allow complications to prevail in the future, in parallel, the mortality rate is associated with other comorbidities, the location and extensión of the hemorrhage at the brain level. The present study aims to determine the prevalence of intracerebral hemorrhage in people over 60 years of age and hypertensive, this being the highest risk for producing this neurological emergency. This retrospective prevalence/cross- sectional study was conducted; descriptive and analytical, using the database of the neurology area of the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil Los Ceibos (HGNG), which were collected, stored and tabulated in a spreadsheet of the Excel 2013 program of patients admitted for emergency with diagnosis of an Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH), after reviewing the clinical history. Based on our specific objectives and analisis of variables. A significant correlation was observed with respect to sex and age. Regarding age, a greater number of hypertensive patients with a diagnosis of intracerebral hemorrhage were established who attended the emergency between 65 and 69 years old with 23%. Being 48% female and 52% male. Concluding that, this type of cerebrovascular event is generated in men, elderly and hypertensive.