Sociodemographic Situation of Elderly Affected by Systemic Arterial Hypertension | Zendy

Gláucia de Souza Abreu Alencar | Zendy; Betânia Maria Pereira dos Santos | Zendy; Elaine Maria Leite Rangel Andrade | Zendy; Gustavo de Alencar Figueiredo | Zendy; Anahi Cézar de Lima Lins | Zendy; Heloisa Helena Alves Andrade | Zendy; Nívia Maria da Silva | Zendy; Jessika Lopes Figueiredo Pereira | Zendy; Anne Milane Formiga Bezerra | Zendy; Sayonara Mary Vieira de Sá | Zendy; Kamila Nethielly Souza Leite | Zendy; Danilo Cleber N. de Lima | Zendy; Katiana Macêdo Duarte | Zendy; Alessandro Leite Cavalcanti | Zendy

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Sociodemographic Situation of Elderly Affected by Systemic Arterial Hypertension

Author(s) -

Gláucia de Souza Abreu Alencar,

Betânia Maria Pereira dos Santos,

Elaine Maria Leite Rangel Andrade,

Gustavo de Alencar Figueiredo,

Anahi Cézar de Lima Lins,

Heloisa Helena Alves Andrade,

Nívia Maria da Silva,

Jessika Lopes Figueiredo Pereira,

Anne Milane Formiga Bezerra,

Sayonara Mary Vieira de Sá,

Kamila Nethielly Souza Leite,

Danilo Cleber N. de Lima,

Katiana Macêdo Duarte,

Alessandro Leite Cavalcanti

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

international archives of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1755-7682

DOI - 10.3823/2134

Subject(s) - medicine , descriptive statistics , incidence (geometry) , descriptive research , statistical analysis , promotion (chess) , environmental health , family income , gerontology , health promotion , rural area , family health , elderly people , disease , public health , nursing , pathology , statistics , physics , mathematics , politics , political science , law , optics , economics , economic growth

Objective: To investigate the occurrence of systemic hypertension in elderly in Cajazeiras County - PB. Methodology: descriptive study, exploratory, cross-sectional, of quantitative approach. A random sample totaled in 348 elderly assisted by Family Health Strategy – FHS at Cajazeiras County - PB. For the analysis, it was used a statistical package, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, descriptive simple statistics (frequency / percentage). Results: There was a high prevalence of hypertension (73.9%), there was a predominance of males (77.3%), higher incidence of hypertension among the elderly aged ≤ 71 (75.0%), live in rural areas (79.2%), live with his/her partner (77.4%) and income ≤ 1 minimum wage (76.1%). Conclusion: Health professionals, especially nurses, should understand the limitations and disabling aspects faced by the elderly, preventing proper treatment of hypertension and satisfactory lifestyle to disease prevention and health promotion, creating strategies to mitigate or remedy these difficulties.

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