Adherencia al tratamiento en pacientes adultos con hipertensión arterial en tres Consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: Arterial hypertension (HT) is a public health problem of the first magnitude, both due to its high prevalence and the significant increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that it entails. Every year around 9 million people die in the world. Lack of adherence to antihypertensive treatment is correlated with an increased risk of cardiovascular complications. Early discontinuation of treatment and use of insufficient daily doses of the prescribed regimen are the most common characteristics of non-adherence Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out, including hypertensive patients of both sexes aged 20 years or more, assigned to six offices of the Pascuales health center in 2021. The Morisky, Green and Levine to assess adherence to drug treatment in patients with hypertension. Results: The hypertensive population corresponds to 120 participants, the age group of 50 and 59 years prevailed with 42.5%, the female sex predominated in this category 25.8%. Non-adherence predominates, with 59.2% male sex, 63.2% followed by female sex, 55.6%. And 40.6% are adherent, predominantly female, 47.1%. Conclusions: The population has high levels of adherence to Hypertension treatment