Fatores associados à hipertensão e ao estado nutricional de pacientes hipertensos atendidos em uma UBS no município de Cuité - PB.

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the major chronic diseases that present a high risk of morbidity and mortality due to its cardiovascular complications. It is therefore extremely important to list the risk factors associated with hypertension for which thus measures are developed to minimize these risks and their consequences. This study aimed to identify risk factors associated with hypertension and its relationship with nutritional status of hypertensive patients seen in the public healthcare clinic of Cuité-PB, since many of these risk factors can be triggered by inadequate nutritional status. This is a study with a quantitative approach, being used for data collection a structured questionnaire, which included information on chronic diseases, smoking, alcohol, physical activity, and socioeconomic and anthropometric information. The samples were collected over a period of three months, and evaluated 85 hypertensive patients, mean age 65 years, 77.6% female and 22.4% male. Most respondents showed overweight (76.5%), 14.1% were smokers, 2.4% consumed alcohol, 65.9% were sedentary, 25.9% not consumed a low-sodium diet, and about 82.4% had cardiovascular risk. Among the comorbidities Diabetes Mellitus is the main (28.23%), followed by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease, which both had a percentage of 24.71%. Therefore, we can see that hypertensive presented relevant risk factors, and many of them were associated with nutritional status, that is, beyond the excess weight is one of the main risk factors, it still triggers other factors. Thus, an efficient planning and control for preventing complications in patients with hypertension, it is necessary to improve the quality of life thereof.