Índice de masa corporal y control de tensión arterial en hipertensos. Centro de Salud Morete Puyo. Mayo 2018-febrero 2019

Abstract

This study aims to show there relationship between the Body Mass Index and the control of blood pressure in hypertensive people treated in the Morete Puyo health sub-center during the period May 2018-February 2019, to propose a risk profile and modern clinical management. There search is descriptive, cross-sectional, analytical. The population studied are patients diagnosed with hypertension during May 2018 and February 2019 in the Morete Puyo health subcenter in the primary healthcare of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador. We used the data base of all patients seen during this period and leaked those diagnosed with arterial hypertension, obtaining a result of 157 patients. After that a data base was created by the authors, using inclusion criteria (patients diagnosed with arterial hypertension, aged between 30 and older than 50 years, who have attended a consultation by a minimum of 3 times in the study time) and exclusion criteria (patients with refractory hypertension). A total sample of 56 people was obtained with which the subsequent analysis was carried out. The index of body mass and blood pressure was correlated together with the variables proposed by the authors. Computer sites did reviews and manually to verify the quality of the data. The 95% confidence index was calculated for the variables of most significant interest. The Student t-test was used in Excel, and for the qualitative variables through chi-square with a significance level of 0.05 and p of 0.95.