Riesgo cardiovascular en pacientes hipertensos de 40 a 64 años en dos consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: Long-term exposure to certain risk factors causes heart disease. Objective: to recognize the risk factors that the study population presented and in turn to establish the total cardiovascular risk. Methods: It is a prevalence study, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional. In the postgraduate area of Family and Community Medicine, year 2021, 121 people suffering from arterial hypertension between the ages of 40 and 64 assigned to clinics 22(A), 22(B) of the Pascuales Health Center were included. Results: The age group of 60 to 64 years of age predominates, female, with completed primary school, marital status free union, mestizo self-identification, self-employment, with adequate total family income, there is no predominance of smoking, the undesirable cholesterol level, there is no history of diabetes mellitus in the study population, the predominant systolic blood pressure is grade I arterial hypertension, and the cardiovascular risk is low.