Níveis pressóricos de risco para a hipertensão arterial sistêmica entre enfermeiros de um hospital do Alto Sertão Paraibano.

Abstract

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.