MEDEIROS, S.S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0023110513196860; MEDEIROS, Sarita de Sousa.
Resumo:
Cardiovascular diseases are the most common causes of morbidity and mortality all over the
world. Among the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, one finds arterial hypertension
which prevails on estimates about 15 to 20% of the brazilian people. Among the hypertensive,
about 30% are not aware that they have the disease and this has been the cause of 40% of the
early retirements and work's absence. Hypertension occurs to different ages and social classes
and it is highly favored by stress including those ones linked to the daily work. The present
study has intended to investigate the pressure levels and risk factors for the arterial sistemic
hypertension among the nursery in a hospital of the Alto Sertao Paraibano region. One is
handling with an exploratory and descriptive field research, employing a quantitative
approach developed with 40 nurses of both sex in a hospital of the Alto Sertao. It was applied
a structured questionnaire in order to evaluate the social, economic, demographic, labor
characteristics and lifestyle; it was realized anthropometric measures and the patient blood
pressure where also verified. The adopted criteria were taken from the V Diretrizes Brasileiras
de Hipertensao Arterial. It was done a descriptive analysis of the results by means of the
frequencies. Te results show that 80% of the sample was female in gender and the prevalent
age were about 25 to 30 years old, 55% of the professionals where female and 12.5% where
male. On both genres the white people prevails. It was verified that most of the professionals
had up to 5 years of graduation and has postgraduated of a lata sensu type .57.5% affirms that
has only one and 32.5% has 2 employment links. The major weekly work time of the
professionals was 60 hours. Related to the nutrition state, 60% of the sample was found to be
eutrophic. Notwithsdanding 40% (n=16) was found to be overweight and 12.5% were obese.
On the arterial pressure side there were divergences between the related and observed values
and only one has declared to have SAH. Related to the evaluated lifestyle 20% adopts a
hyperlipidic diet and 22.5% are oral contraceptives users; smoking was related by 2.5% of the
interviewed. Sedentarism were observed in 57.5% of the cases. The results obtained stress the
need of a better knowledge of the hypertension risk factors on the labor and personal
environment and also the avoidance of the risk factors that can develop morbidities like
hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, improving then the life and work quality.