Principais internações por agravos em mulheres na idade climatérica.

Abstract

We know that the population is aging earlier, and this means that many women will enter climacteric, leading them to seek health services, thus requiring skilled professionals and sensitized with caring for this type of people. Climacteric is a transitional period where women have reduced their production of estrogen, occurring between 35 and 65 years culminating the end of the menstrual cycle. Most women show signs and symptoms ranging from mild to very intense, more frequent heat waves, insomnia, vaginal atrophy, depression and anxiety, which can result in other problems such as irritability, tachycardia, sweating, fatigue and excessive worry. Aimed to investigate the main admissions for damages related to climacteric. This is an exploratory secondary data of a quantitative nature, with descriptive analysis. The instrument collection is designed to consolidate data available in Datasus in the years 2008-2012, during the period from 06 to 14 January 2014. For analysis we used simple descriptive statistics proportion. For that we used the Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets. It was found that the most frequent damages were climacteric depression, reaching women in the age range 40-44 years; hypertension, occurring in the age range between 60-64 years; and obesity, with only 16 cases, two in 2009, two in 2011 and 12 in 2012. The study also showed that women of color / race suffering these illnesses are more black / brown, and the least suffering are indigenous.