Prevalencia y factores de riesgo asociados a la hipertensión arterial en adultos mayores de 50 a 65 años atendidos en el Centro de Salud de Guamaní tipo C durante el año 2023.

Abstract

In the present research work we can observe that our population is divided as a strategy to obtain different study groups such as sex, age, ethnicity among others since all the parameters analyzed must be obtained by tabulations that help us to obtain reliable results and then we can educate the population to maintain a healthy diet and have a daily exercise routine so that they can maintain an optimal weight that prevents the development of this cardiovascular pathology since most of the population presents a certain degree of overweight which is a precedent to acquire arterial hypertension. Our project is also based on the study of the prevalence of patients with this pathology who are treated in the health center of Guamaní type c, the results obtained were: That 60% of the female sex stands out being this the most vulnerable gender to develop arterial hypertension, while the male sex occupies 40% being in a group very prone to acquire the pathology already mentioned. Age analysis does not give the following results: 39% of the population among men and women belong to the age of 50, which suggests that only 39% of all sample patients in the study develop high blood pressure between 50 and 65 years of age. The importance of this research is to identify the main risk factors that are related in the study population, as well as knowing the prevalence of this disease in the population attending the health unit and how by means of opinions professions of doctors who treat the patient gives a diagnosis and affirmative treatment to such pathology.